. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. g that the Revolution ran a strange course. A leadingspirit, Louis Blanc, commanded a strong faction of the Parislaboring classes which stood not merely for a republic, but forsomething very akin to economic socialism. The most imme-diate attempt in this radical program was the setting-up of national workshops, in which the unemployed or underpaidof Paris could find steady work at good It seemed asif the happy day of the Paris laboring classes had come, but 1 The workers were to be kept busy manufacturing articles needed
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. g that the Revolution ran a strange course. A leadingspirit, Louis Blanc, commanded a strong faction of the Parislaboring classes which stood not merely for a republic, but forsomething very akin to economic socialism. The most imme-diate attempt in this radical program was the setting-up of national workshops, in which the unemployed or underpaidof Paris could find steady work at good It seemed asif the happy day of the Paris laboring classes had come, but 1 The workers were to be kept busy manufacturing articles needed by theGovernment: , saddles for the cavalry; army uniforms, etc. 468 HISTORY OF EUROPE the proposition awoke the disgust of all the capitalistic andconservative element in France, and added to the ill feelingtoward the Republic. Nevertheless, a National Assembly elected by manhoodsuffrage was duly gathered to give France a new Republicanconstitution. It drew up a scheme based largely on theexample of America; with a single legislature of 750 members in1 11.
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