Editing July Monarchy (section)

== End of the monarchy ==
{{further|French Revolution of 1848}}
After some unrest, the king replaced {{lang|fr|Guizot|italic=no}} by {{lang|fr|Thiers|italic=no}} who advocated repression. Greeted with hostility by the troops in the {{lang|fr|[[Place du Carrousel]]|italic=no}}, in front of the [[Tuileries Palace]], the king finally decided to [[abdicate]] in favor of his grandson, {{lang|fr|[[Philippe, comte de Paris|Philippe d'Orléans]]|italic=no}}, entrusting the regency to his daughter-in-law, {{lang|fr|[[Hélène de Mecklembourg-Schwerin]]|italic=no}}. His gesture was in vain as the [[Second Republic (France)|Second Republic]] was proclaimed on 26 February 1848, on the {{lang|fr|[[Place de la Bastille]]|italic=no}}, before the [[July Column]].

{{lang|fr|Louis-Philippe|italic=no}}, who claimed to be the "Citizen King" linked to the country by a [[popular sovereignty]] contract on which he founded his legitimacy, did not see that the French people were advocating an enlargement of the electorate, either by a decrease of the electoral tax threshold, or by the establishment of universal suffrage {{Citation needed|date=April 2017}}.

Although the end of the July Monarchy brought France to the brink of civil war, the period was also characterized by an effervescence of [[French art of the 19th century|artistic and intellectual creation]].