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新GRE高频阅读机经原文：法国二月革命 　　导语：下面是小编整理的新GRE高频阅读机经原文：法国二月革命，供您参考，希望能带给您帮助。 　　来自海外新GRE考题，36套中E15大意：二月革命由于成功了所以没有留下有用的资料，以致于被忽视，而失败的反叛运动往往会留下很多资料 　　Questions 9 to 12 are based on the following reading passage. 　　In February 1848 the people of Paris rose in revolt against the constitutional monarchy of Louis-Philippe. 　　Despite the existence of excellent narrative accounts, the Line February Days, as this revolt is called, have been largely 5 ignored by social historians of the past two decades. For each of the three other major insurrections in nineteenth-century ParisJuly 1830, June 1843, and May 1871----there exists at least a sketch of participants#39; backgrounds and an analysis, more or less rigorous, of the 10 reasons for the occurrence of the uprisings. Only in the case of the February Revolution do we lack a useful description of participants that might characterize it in the light of what social history has taught us about the process of revolutionary mobilization. 　　15 Two reasons for this relative neglect seem obvious. 　　First, the insurrection of February has been overshadowed by that of June. The February Revolution overthrew a regime, to be sure, but met with so little resistance that it failed to generate any real sense of historical drama. Its 20 successor, on the other hand, appeared to pit key socioeconomic groups in a life-or-death struggle and was widely seen by contemporary observers as marking a historical departure. Through their interpretations, which exert a continuing influence on our understanding of the 25 revolutionary process, the impact of the events of June has been magnified, while, as an unintended consequence, the significance of the February insurrection has been diminished. Second, like other quot;successfulinsurrections, the events of February failed to generate the most 30 desirable kinds of historical records. Although the June insurrection of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871 would be considered watersheds of