As the Charter Faction movement was fiercely undergoing its final "struggles," in the French Republic, separated from the Kingdom of Britain by a mere channel, preparations for impending upheaval were also underway.
The February Revolution ignited all of France and spread the flames of revolution through Lyon and Strasbourg to the Italian Region and the German Region. The Republic could not repeat the mistakes of 1793; the fervor of revolution had to be ended.
Everything was for France!
Stopping the revolution and preserving the fruits of the Republic became the foremost priority in Lamartine's mind; he had always been striving for this goal.
[Lamartine, a Girondist politician in Marx's words, became the interim head of government at the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Second Republic and simultaneously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from February 24 to May 11, 1848.]
