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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Revolutions of 1848

Battle at Soufflot barricades at Rue Soufflot Street, Paris, France, on 24 June 1848, Horace Vernet.
"The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, Springtime of the Peoples[3] or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe in 1848. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history, but within a year, reactionary forces had regained control, and the revolutions collapsed." - Wikipedia
Sounds a little like what's going on in the Middle East and North Africa. Inspired by a post by Comrade Misfit that mentioned an apocryphal quote by Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin.

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