Excerpt from Three Speeches of Adolphe Thiers (With Introduction) The storm came in 1848. Louis Philippe's throne made little more resistance than a sand castle to the rising tide. A Republic was declared. Socialist experiments were made. All Europe was convulsed by the catastrophe. Yet when examined closely the Revolution of 1848 does not seem to be one of those movements which it is easy to call inevitable. There is little evidence that the country as a whole was hostile to the King. Thiers was called upon in the crisis for help and advice. He recommended the King to leave Paris at onoe and to retire to his palace at Saint Cloud. If the rising in Paris mastered the city for a time he believed it could be beaten down later. The policy that he advocated then he pursued in 1871, when he had to defend the Assembly against the Commune. His advice was not taken. The King abdicated, and the monarchy came to an unlamented end. There was nothing in this revolution that pleased Thiers. Of all things that which I can least support is the dictation of a mob, he wrote. And he had neither sympathy nor hope for Louis Blanc's socialistic experiments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.