1. The “stifled” Paris revolution
1.1. Introduction
Doubts have been cast on the revolutionary character of the events that took place in Paris over just eight days in July/August 1830. Unlike the French Revolution of 1789, they neither heralded an overturning of the political and social system nor mobilized forces of peasants, sans-culottes, and counter-revolutionaries across the country [4]. Nonetheless, they were called a revo…