The Provisional Government Declares a Republic

Albert had been a long-standing working-class leader in the various revolutionary secret societies that had risen and fallen over the 1830s and 1840s. Albert's entrance into the provisional government would mark the first member of the working class to ever serve in a French government. So this little crew of reformed candidates for the provisional government then picked their way through the barricades and entered the Hotel de Ville. There they received a warm greeting from the people who lifted Blanc onto their shoulders and carried him up to the provisional government where they banged on the door until they were admitted. And so trying to send Blanc and the others away risked killing the provisional government before it even had a chance to live