Thus
ended the party of Order, the Legislative Assembly and the February
revolution.
Before hastening to the end, let us sum up shortly the plan of its
history:
I.--First Period. From February 24 to May 4, 1848. February period.
Prologue. Universal fraternity swindle.
II.--Second Period. Period in which the republic is constituted, and of
the Constitutive National Assembly.
1. May 4 to June 25, 1848. Struggle of all the classes against the house
of Mr. proletariat. Defeat of the proletariat in the June days.
2. June 25 to December 10, 1848. Dictatorship of the pure bourgeois
republicans. Drafting of the Constitution. The state of siege hangs
over Paris. The Bourgeois dictatorship set aside on December 10 by the
election of Bonaparte as President.
3. December 20, 1848, to May 20, 1849. Struggle of the Constitutive
Assembly with Bonaparte and with the united party of Order. Death of the
Constitutive Assembly. Downfall of the republican bourgeoisie.
III.--Third Period. Period of the constitutional republic and of the
Legislative National Assembly.
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