![]() ![]() This mood contributed to the alienation between artist and society that had already been implicit in early nineteenth-century romanticism. ![]() “Ah, they’re killing off a few bourgeois,” Frédéric Moreau comments nonchalantly, when he hears troops firing on some of the demonstrators.After Napoleon III re-established the Empire and defeated the hopes of the 1848 revolutionaries, a mood of disillusionment with politics dominated intellectual and artistic life in the following decades this was the first stage of a broader crisis of liberalism. Flaubert the revolution from the point of view of an unsuccessful would-be writer, who misses most of the political action because he is distracted by his pursuit of a love affair with an older, married woman. In Sentimental Education (1869), Gustave Flaubert brilliantly describes the revolution of 1848, in which Napoleon III (nephew of the first Napoleon) established himself as emperor in a coup d’état, later confirmed by popular plebiscite. ![]()
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