Forwarding of Rome

The forwarding of Rome is the French forwarding sent to Rome in spring 1849, in order to support the pope Pie IX vis-a-vis the revolutionary disorders which drove out it of Rome (November 24th, 1848) and proclaimed the Roman republic.

Forwarding

It was decided by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, president of the Republic and Odilon Barrot, chief of the Parti the Order. It is a question of giving pledges to the party of the Order and to the catholics, animated by Montalembert, who have just ensured the success of the candidature of Bonaparte the presidential election. The French republicans, as for them, vote the appropriations of war to help the Roman republicans threatened of an Austrian military intervention. : 3000 men of the French task force of the general Oudinot unload with Civitavecchia on April 24th. Opposite them the Roman militia ordered by Garibaldi are. The talks between the Roman republicans and the ambassador plenipotentiary French Ferdinand de Lesseps last a good month. It is indeed a question for the French government of saving time and of awaiting the results of the legislative elections, which should bring a legislative assembly dominated by the party of the Order, to replace Constituent mainly republican. The result of the elections being acquired, French troops (: 30000 soldiers) pass to the attack the June 4th. But make an attempt the June 30th 1849 to enter Rome, where the republicans deposit the weapons on July 1st without never capitulating. They ocupent the city while waiting for the re-establishment of a pontifical capacity (of the pope Pie IX which had been constrained to flee with the beginning of the year 1849). Mazzini, directing republic, turns over in exile, and Garibaldi tries to join Venice, where the republican Daniele Manin resists to the Austrians.

The French troops remain stationed in the Eternal City to the entry in Rome by the Pia door of the troops of the general Cadorna the September 20th 1870. This French occupation marks the beginning of the Roman Question.

Consequences in France

The French interior repercussions of this business were not mean. June 13rd, 1849, in the context burning of the Roman business, a group of representatives of the people democrat-Socialists, under the aegis of Ledru-Rollin, tries a coup d'etat indeed. After having claimed the committal for trial of the president of the Republic and its ministry, with which they reproach for violating the constitution, the representatives democrat-Socialists run about the streets of Paris, assemble their some supports, in particular in the rows of the National guard. But the business turns badly. After a demonstration on the boulevards of Paris dispersed by the general Changarnier, the republican deputies cut off themselves with their last faithful to the Academy from Arts and Métiers where they decide to sit in convention. But the Academy is not a fortified town and, a few hours later, whereas the forces with the orders of the capacity broke the presses of some newspapers a little too red, the deputies rebellious must escape. They will hide, in particular abroad, but less deposed of their legislative mandate and, for some, will not be condemned of it by contumacy to the deportation for plot and attack. The field was from now on free for Louis-Napoleon. Still a little more than two years and it was the coup d'etat of December 1851, heralding the return of the Empire.

See too

Roman Republic (1849)

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