Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine was a French author, poet, and statesman who was instrumental in the foundation of the French Second Republic and the continuation of the tricolore as the flag of France.
Alphonse de Lamartine photographed in 1865
Lamartine's House in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Portrait of Madame de Lamartine by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1849)
The French Second Republic, officially the French Republic, was the second republican government of France. It existed from 1848 until its dissolution in 1852.
The chamber of the National Assembly of the Second Republic, in 1848
Louis Napoléon Bonaparte taking the oath of office upon being elected president