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The Troubles With the Gizot Regime
Gizot was not doing a huge amount wrong, but his government had managed to wind up in the kind of war with the media. That's one of the problems, that there was this shower, a kind of flood of invective against the monarchy. And at the same time, there's the problem of who is represented in the representative politics of this monarchy. They've had a revolution in 1830 and revised the constitution that they got in 1814. But the constitution in franchise is fewer than 2% of the population. This is a male franchise only, but it's a tiny, tiny fragment of the wealthiest.