On this day in 1848, more than 40,000 French workers initiated the June Days Uprising after the state closed National Workshops that provided work to the unemployed, causing 10,000 casualties and 4,000 workers to be deported to Algeria.

The National Workshops had only been formed a few months earlier, when, on February 25th, a group of armed workers interrupted a session of the provisional government to demand "the organization of labor" and "the right to work".

In late June, the Second Republic began planning to close the workshops, leading to a national uprising. In sections of the city, hundreds of barricades were thrown up. The National Guard was sent in to quell the rebellion, and workers seized weapons from local armories to fight back.

The violence, which lasted just three days, resulted in more than 10,000 casualties and 4,000 participants to be deported to Algeria. Among the dead was Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris, killed while trying to negotiate peace with an angry crowd.

The rebellion was successfully crushed, and the episode put a hold on revolutionary ambitions of radical Republicans at the time. In its aftermath, the French Constitution of 1848 was adopted, mandating that executive power be wielded by a democratically elected president.

The first president under this framework was Napoleon Bonaparte, who dissolved the constitution during his first term in office.

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  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I imagine Berkeley, Boulder, and Portland all have like a thousand places exactly like that.

    • DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      In Boulder it would be more likely to be something along the lines of "Saṃsāra Brewing" and the clientele is all boomer millionaires talking about stock portfolios and which grad school their kids are applying to. For real I've never seen so many white people obsessed with (the aesthetics of) eastern religions and obscure yoga than I have when I lived there. Denver is generally way cooler but this particular brewery let me down hard after checking their FAQ

    • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Revolution Brewing has some weird mixture of Soviet and superhero aesthetics. Weird stuff. Good beer, though.