he to was an a of not so much overthrown in the established or
trying to find a consensus that allow opportunities to reform.
Allow opportunities for people willing to try new things.
He is a big believer in constitutions, in parliaments, in separations of power.
He had spent a lot of his early life in Britain.
He was also impressed by aspects of the American Republic.
And he tried to bring some of those ideas back into French political life.
Trying to find a consensus between royalist reaction and revolutionary zeal.
Another dimension of the world of 1830 is the sense in which the bastions of
the traditional world are increasingly being encircled by modern forces.
We can see this in a few different dimensions.
For example, even within Europe there's this feeling in divided
societies as if you have outposts of tradition.
The established church, royal families,
increasingly encircled by modern innovations.
By modern thinkers, by pressures from reformers.
And then the more modern parts of Europe, Western Europe are increasingly encircling
the more traditional parts of Europe dominated by large land owners.
In places like the Russian Empire or other parts of Eastern Europe.