<P> The French Second Republic was a short - lived republican government of France between the 1848 Revolution and the 1851 coup by Louis - Napoléon Bonaparte which initiated the Second Empire . It officially adopted the motto of the First Republic , Liberté , Égalité , Fraternité . The Second Republic witnessed the tension between the `` Social and Democratic Republic '' ( French : la République démocratique et sociale ) and a liberal form of republicanism , which exploded during the June Days uprising of 1848 . </P>
<P> The French Second Republic was a short - lived republican government of France between the 1848 Revolution and the 1851 coup by Louis - Napoléon Bonaparte which initiated the Second Empire . It officially adopted the motto of the First Republic , Liberté , Égalité , Fraternité . The Second Republic witnessed the tension between the `` Social and Democratic Republic '' ( French : la République démocratique et sociale ) and a liberal form of republicanism , which exploded during the June Days uprising of 1848 . </P>
when did the second republic in france end
when did the second republic in france end
1851
1851