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ends up in December 1851,
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after Napoleon's nephew
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte,
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who had become the good old Napoleon III, not so good old--
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he destroys the republic,
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where he completes a process of repression that he'd already,
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as president of France,
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elected on the 10th of December 1848, initiated.
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But that very ordinary people, peasants for the most part,
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but also rural artisans,
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particularly in the south and not necessarily speaking French at all,
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rise up to try to defend the republic