Following a decree of the provisional government fixing the duration of the working day at ten hours for Paris and eleven hours for the province, a riot éclatat in Marseilles. June 22, 1848, excited by dangerous leaders, several hundreds of workmen, descended from the heights of Saint-Charles, the districts of the center invaded and improvised barricades.
The soldiers succeeded in carrying those of the streets of Rome, the Fen, and second Calade; but on the Castellane places, of OEufs and the Republic, the insurrectionists were maintained.
With the Saint-Louis course several officers and soldiers, the captains Robust and of Vulliers, the General Ménard Saint Martin's day are killed or wounded. The national guard remains hesitant, the situation remains critical.
The following day, June 23, the garrisons of Avignon and Aix having arrived at the help of the troops of the command, the battle started again. It was keen. The ones after the others the barricades were carried. With the Castellane place resistance was desperate, but the victory remained with the army, and all those of the insurgent ones which were taken the weapons with the hand were led to the Castle of Yew.

Barricade place in OEufs

261 of them obtained nonsuits, and the Court of sat of Drôme discharged the other prisoners. One condemned some of them to sorrows, which varied between one year of prison and the deportation. Repression was thus relatively soft, but, if the middle-class still carried it, the Republic was compromised, because it lost its best defenders; workmen, from now on heinous and hostile. Thus are explained progress of the opinion Bonapartist and the ascending functioning towards the absolute capacity of the applicant Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, appointed president of the Republic by five million and half of voice (December 10, 1848).