The Mountain (1849)
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The Mountain, with its members collectively called Democratic Socialists, was a political group of the French Second Republic.
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin led The Mountain of 1849
Members of The Mountain at the National constituent assembly in 1848
1851 French coup d'état
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The coup d'état of 2 December 1851 was a self-coup staged by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, at the time President of France under the Second Republic. Code-named Operation Rubicon and timed to coincide wit
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (right), with the bust of Napoleon I behind him, delivers instructions to his conspirators in the night of 1 to 2 December. Depicted, from left to right: Mocquard, Saint-Arnaud, Morny and Fialin. Drawing by Philippoteaux, engraved by E. Leguay and published in 1853
Proclamations of the decree issued by the president and executed by his Minister of the Interior, Charles de Morny, were placarded throughout Paris on 2 December.
D'Allonville's cavalry in the streets of Paris during the coup d'état
Montagnard deputy Jean-Baptiste Baudin in the barricades of Paris on 3 December, where he was killed by coup forces