The Revolution of 1830 brought about the formulation of three schools of thought where the word emancipation played a central role: the Republican school of thought where emancipation was first and foremost the sovereignity of the people; Socialism where emancipation was the amelioration of the destiny of the proletariat obtained through social engineering; the budding workers movement where emancipation was the organization of workers. Throughout the early years of the July monarchy, these waves closely surrounded the communal order of association and the shared experience of repression. A new train of thought about the emancipation of workers was emerging and appeared on the all important day of the 1848 revolution. This thought is the foundation of an interpretation of the Republic antagonistic to the Republicans seen as moderates: a democratic and social Republic. Defeated at the ballot box and then the streets, the democratic and social Republic survived during different movements and reappeared in 1871 in the “Commune de Paris.”