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Why did Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve leave the Mazarine Library after the Revolution of 1848?
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Following the Revolution of 1848, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve resigned from his position at the Mazarine Library in a fit of pique. His departure was prompted by an unfair accusation in the republican press, which alleged that he had accepted secret government funds intended for the repair of a chimney in his apartment. Disillusioned by the revolutionary democracy he witnessed, he subsequently left Paris to serve as a visiting professor at the University of Liège in Belgium for one year.1