# Harvest failures worsen social crisis (1846)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1846-harvest-failures-worsen-social-crisis
Location: France

Food shortages and unemployment intensified political discontent before 1848. Within the broader Restoration, July Monarchy & Second Republic period, Post-Napoleonic France alternated between restored monarchy, constitutional reform and revolution. Industrialization, colonial expansion and new social movements culminated in the democratic upheaval of 1848. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Louis-Philippe I (King of the French). Harvest failures worsen social crisis mattered because it changed material life, state capacity, economic networks or France’s ability to project power. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Harvest failures worsen social crisis mattered because it changed material life, state capacity, economic networks or France’s ability to project power.

Ruler at the time: [Louis-Philippe I](https://history-france.com/rulers/louis-philippe-i)

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