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Les campagnes françaises et la Deuxième République : cinquante ans d'historiographie 

Pierre Lévêque

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The french countryside and the Second Republic: 50 years of historiography The studies on regional history, devoted to the Second Republic or on a longer chronological scale, have renewed the knowledge of a diversity of french rural societies from the middle of the XIXth century: the dispatching of the land, the operating methods, the debts, the demographic situation, the land shortage, the collective community mentalities, the religious practices, the politicization. The whole studies cover about a third of France's administrative divisions. The subsistence crisis of 1846-1847 then the other one in spring 1848 did not strike everywhere with the same severity. These difficult circumstances have caused a continuous turbulence in the countryside: the troubles in the forests, the resistance to the "45 centimes" tax. However the elections for the french parliament on april the 23rd 1848 marked the mainly rural population's entry in a kind of modernization. If the Bonapartist big swing that occured during the second semester of 1848, the absolute majority for the party of order at the 13th of may 1849 elections, the success of the social-democrates and the limited in space resistance to the "Coup d'État" did participate in the national integration of the rural population, their political consciousness is far from being clear.

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Pierre Lévêque, “Les campagnes françaises et la Deuxième République : cinquante ans d'historiographie ”Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle [Online], 14 | 1997, Online since 04 September 2008, connection on 16 April 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rh19/111; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rh19.111

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