Twelve years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_May https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_May > The BPU had made its reputation amid the spontaneous

Twelve years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_May https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_May > The BPU had made its reputation amid the spontaneous rioting that had accompanied the fall of the First Reform Bill in 1831, assembling 150,000 protesters at Newhall Hill in the largest political assembly the country had ever seen.[15] Its threat to reorganise itself along semi-military lines in November 1831 had led to suggestions that it was trying to usurp the civil authority, and made a deliberate, if implicit, threat of the possibility of armed revolt in the event of the formation of an anti-reform government. Ultimately led to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Act_1832 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Act_1832 which dramatically expanded the voting franchise. The French Revolution, and the almost total destruction of an aristocratic/noble/royal system, was the subtext of every bottom-up political movement in Europe in this era.