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Critically examine: ‘The whole episode that is known as the July Revolution (1830) was fought and won not for the establishment of an extreme democracy but to get rid of the aristocratic and clericalist attitude of the restored Bourbons.’

  • UPSC 2015
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution

The July Revolution of 1830 toppled Charles X in three days of Parisian street fighting, yet its outcome — a constitutional monarchy under Louis-Philippe, not a republic — is itself the strongest evidence for this statement.

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  • The Bourbon Restoration's Aristocratic-Clerical Drift
  • The Four Ordinances: The Immediate Trigger
  • The Outcome as Evidence: A Bourgeois, Not a Democratic, Settlement
  • The Radical Undercurrent and Its Limits

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