Author Bob Welch observed that in Les Miserables that the uprising that Victor Hugo observed occurred in June, 1832 as a small Parisian insurrection that lasted only a short time. It was more of a street riot with a tragic outcome. Quoting Hugo, Welch said that the uprising was a defiance against the royalist government of France as a reaction to three problems of the day. First it was a defiance of man by the exploitation of his labor. Second, it was in opposition of the ruination of women by starvation and subservient autocracy and the abomination and cruelty with monstrous abuses against children. The violence that broke out that fateful June was triggered by death, cholera, of a popular liberal politician and former Napoleonic general, Jean Maximilien Lamarque.

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