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Second republic signifies transformation of the political system through democratic means, rewriting or reform of constitution and political institutions following a revolution or mass uprising.

Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the publication, on Christmas Day, of a treaty between himself and the crowned ...

The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...

4 in Distant Lands Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette (try saying that five times as fast after a few beers) had a real penchant for revolution. Not only did the Marquis ...

The work remained in royal hands until the French Revolution, when the royal collection was claimed as property of the people. After a brief period spent hanging on Napoleon Bonaparte’s bedroom wall, ...