Laura O’Brien is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Sunderland

‘The Republican Line is an admirable book, which can be endorsed without reservation and read with great pleasure.’Robert Justin Goldstein, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Nineteenth-Century French Studies (vol. 45, numbers 1-2, fall-winter 2016-2017)‘This is a work that is detailed, thorough and thoughtful. It is well illustrated and there are detailed descriptions of the images that could not be reproduced. It will be a useful resource for future historians of France’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis.’Christopher Guyver, The English Historical Review

• Introduction1. The image of the people: representing republicanism in July Monarchy caricature2. Caricature and the ‘springtime of the people’: responses to the February Revolution, 18483. Enemies of the state? Caricature and outsiders in the Second Republic4. ‘Flights of fancy’: satire, socialism and republicanism5. Caricature and anti-republicanism, 1830–526. Caricature, the republic and the challenge of conservatism and BonapartismConclusionBibliographyIndex