Leading up to the rebellion, there were significant economic problems, particularly acute in the period from 1827 to 1832. General Jean Lamarque was admired by republicans for his defeat of Legitimists in the Vendée in 1815 and his support of international republican movements. However, over and above the easily-provoked 'fury' or 'rage' of the Parisian population (at the differences between their poverty and the differences in income and opportunities of the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy), Bonapartists for their part lamented the loss of Napoleon's empire, and the Legitimists supported the deposed Bourbon dynasty, seeking to place the man they regarded as the true king in power: Charles's grandson and designated successor Henri, Count of Chambord.
This angered republicans who saw one king replaced by another, and by 1832 the sentiment that their revolution, for which many of them had died, had been stolen. In the 1830 July Revolution, the elected Chamber of Deputies had established a constitutional monarchy and replaced Charles X of the House of Bourbon with his more liberal cousin Louis-Philippe.
