# Chopin gives his last Paris concert on 16 February 1848 as revolution nears Date: 1848 ## The fact On 16 February 1848 [Chopin](/people/frederic-chopin) gave his last Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel, a carefully ticketed evening of his own works, ten days before Louis-Philippe’s fall. He played; he did not stand on a barricade or write a franchise pamphlet. The row stores the political seating of a last Paris public, not a claim that piano music caused 1848. ## Context February 1848 in Paris was a franchise and street crisis. A closed piano evening for subscribers is a [democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience) colour because the city’s political public was elsewhere. That reading is an impact path, not a sneer at the programme. Do not twin this night with 26 February 1832. Do not treat later anniversary concerts as 1848. Teaching-income collapse after the revolution is a neighbouring labour row. A last Paris public that is still a subscription room, ten days before a throne falls, is a democratic-resilience colour because the franchise public was not in that hall. He played his own works; he did not write a franchise pamphlet. The night is political seating, not a claim that piano music caused the February days. Louis-Philippe still sat on the 16th; the street took the week after. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. ## Evidence and sources Pleyel’s house history locates the hall. Britannica independently dates the 16 February 1848 concert as his last in Paris and places it against the 1848 crisis. Official: https://www.pleyel.com/en. Independent: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederic-Chopin. The records establish date and last-Paris status. They do not establish a unique later democracy index, nor a claim that the programme listed barricade songs, nor that 26 April 1841 is this same night under another title. Official or archival record: Pleyel — house history and concert rooms (https://www.pleyel.com/en; Pleyel). ## Significance Worsening democratic-resilience path at symbolic scale: the city’s most famous pianist was in a ticketed room while the franchise fight took the street. Medium confidence on political effect, high on the date. Modest weight. He is not charged with suppressing the revolution. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts. ## What is established and what is not Established: Chopin’s last Paris concert was 16 February 1848 at the Salle Pleyel. Not established: that the concert caused or prevented 1848, or that 1841 is this night. A contradictory 1848 playbill with another date would change the row. The attached driver is democratic-resilience. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. 16 February 1848 is not 26 February 1832 and not a British recital. Mixed effects of Chopin gives his last Paris concert on 16 February 1848 as revolution nears are separate paths. Shared responsibility is part of Chopin gives his last Paris concert on 16 February 1848 as revolution nears. Naming Frédéric Chopin does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1848-02-16 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them. ## People - Frédéric Chopin: https://factrail.ai/people/frederic-chopin ## Drivers - Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience ## Sources - https://www.pleyel.com/en - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederic-Chopin ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ch-last-paris-concert-1848