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A Barricade, from the French barrique (barrel), is any object or structure that

creates a barrier  or obstacle to control, block passage or force the flow

of traffic in the desired direction. Adopted as a military term, a barricade denotes

any improvised field fortification, such as on city streets during urban warfare.

Barricades also include temporary traffic barricades designed with the goal of

dissuading passage into a protected or haardous area or large slabs

of cement whose goal is to actively prevent forcible passage by a vehicle. !tripes

on barricades and panel devices slope downward in the direction traffic must

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&here are also pedestrian barricades ' sometimes called bike rack barricades for

their resemblance to a now obsolete form of bicycle stand, or police barriers.

&hey originated in France approimately * years ago and are now produced

around the world. &hey were first produced in the +.!. * years ago by

Friedrichs -fg"$ for ew /rleans0s -ardi 1ras parades.

 Anti'vehicle barriers and blast barriers are sturdy barricades that can respectively

counter vehicle and bomb attacks."$"2$

Contents

• 34n history

• #1allery

• %!ee also

• 5eferences

In history "edit$

&he origins of the barricade are often erroneously traced back to the 6First 7ay of 

the Barricades6, a confrontation that occurred in 8aris on 3# -ay 399 in which

the supporters of the 7uke of 1uise and the ultra':atholic ;oly <eague

successfully challenged the authority of king ;enri 444. 4n actuality, although

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barricades came to widespread public awareness in that uprising (and in the

e=ually momentous 6!econd 7ay of the Barricades6 on #> August 329), none of 

several conflicting claims concerning who may have 6invented6 the barricade

stand up to close scrutiny for the simple reason that Blaise de -onluc hadalready documented insurgents0 use of the techni=ue at least as early as 32? in

religiously based conflicts in southwestern France.

 Although barricade construction began in France in the siteenth century and

remained an eclusively French practice for two centuries, the nineteenth century

remained the classic era of the barricade. :ontrary to a number of historical

sources, barricades were present in various incidents of the great French

5evolution of 3>9?, but they never played a central role in those events. &heywere, however, a highly visible and conse=uential element in many of the

insurrections that occurred in France throughout the 39**s, including in the

revolutions of 39%* (6the @uly 7ays6) and 399 (in both February and @une.)

/ther 8arisian events included the @une 5ebellion of 39%#, which was smaller in

scale, but rendered famous by ictor ;ugo0s account in Les Misérables, the

combat that ended the 8aris :ommune in -ay 39>3, and the more symbolic

structures created in -ay 3?29.

&he barricade began its diffusion outside France in the 3>9*s and played a

significant role in the Belgian 5evolution of 39%*, but it was only in the course of

the upheaval of 399 that it became truly international in scope. 4ts spread across

the :ontinent was aided by the circulation of students, political refugees, and

itinerant workers through the French capital, where many gained first'hand

eperience of one or another 8arisian insurrection. &he barricade had, by the

middle of the nineteenth century, become the preeminent symbol of a

revolutionary tradition that would ultimately spread worldwide. Barricade

references appear in many collo=uial epressions and are used, often

metaphorically, in poems and songs celebrating radical social movements.

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