
3.45- The Fall of Mantua
Revolutions
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The Conservatives and the Constitutional Monarchists
On the one hand, you have arch conservative absolutists. For them, the goal was nothing less than the full rest ration of the monarchy with all its ancient rights and privileges. On the other were constitutional monarchists who had been revolutionaries in good standing until the insurrection of august tenth pushed them all out. They believed in trying to restore something like the constitution of 17 91, with a few adjustments to make it more stable. But despite their differences, the sides tried to forge a political coalition that would help them win the spring elections. And then they would all start working to restore the monarchy. What that restored monarchy would actually look like was a fight for another day.
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