Why did the government cancel the reform banquet planned for Paris in February 1848?

The French government canceled the reform banquet planned for February 22, 1848, because it feared the event would lead to violence.1

During this period, public political meetings were illegal, so opposition leaders organized a series of political "banquets" to mobilize public discontent and pressure the regime of Louis-Philippe to grant liberal reforms. The government viewed the planned mammoth banquet in Paris as a threat to order, and its decision to prohibit the gathering triggered the protests and rioting that ultimately led to the Revolution of 1848 and the end of the constitutional monarchy.1