Michael Freund (1902–1972) was a German historian and professor at the University of Kiel.
Freund's view was that Louis Napoleon was the only real revolutionist in 1848.
Freund wrote, "After the solemn republican respectability of 1848 it seemed that only with the Napoleonic experiment did a great revolutionary élan appear on the stage of history".
The social ideals of the disciples of Saint-Simon were given by Napoleon, for the first time, a military and authoritarian aspect.
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