In Literature
- Gustave Flaubert's novel L'éducation sentimentale uses the 1848 revolution as a backdrop for its story.
- Karl Marx's Essay The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852) describes the 1848 revolution as a class struggle.
- Laura Kalpakian's novel "Cosette" uses the 1848 revolution as a primary part of the plot.
- Sylvia Townsend Warner's novel "Summer Will Show" uses the 1848 revolution as a primary part of the plot.
- Kurt Andersen's novel "Heyday (novel)" begins with one of the protagonists witnessing and unintentionally participating in the 1848 revolution.
- The character of Piotr Alejandrovitch Miusov, uncle and tutor of Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov, hinted that he himself had almost taken part in the fighting on the barricades in the 1848 revolution.
- L'Autre Dumas (English: The Other Dumas), a 2010 French film directed by Safy Nebbou, depicts Alexandre Dumas in a fictitious involvement with a young female revolutionary.
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