Contents

Preface

1.The Barriers of the League: May 1588

2.The Barricades of the Fronde: August 1648

3.The Hunger Barricades: Prairial Year III

4.Barricades and the End of the Bourbons:
November 1827, July 1830

5.The First Proletarian Barricades: Lyon,
November 1831 and April 1834

6.Barricades in the Age of Romanticism: June 1832

7.The Last Victorious Barricades:
Paris, February 1848

8.The Barricade Exported to Europe: Spring 1848

9.The Barricades of Despair: Paris, June 1848

10.A Mythical Barricade: December 1851

11.The Barricades of the Commune: May 1871

Epilogue

Illustration Credits

Index