Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Chaplin ya fara halartar Salon tare da hotunan mutum-mutumi, amma kuma ya zana shimfidar wurare, musamman ma ƙauyen Auvergne. Ayyukansa na farko, daga 1848 zuwa 1851, an zana su ta hanyar da ke nuna sha'awar gaskiya, wani salon da aka kafa a Jamhuriyar Faransa ta biyu, wanda ke da taken "Liberté, égalité, fraternité", kuma gwamnatin jamhuriyar Faransa ta mallake ta tsawon shekaru uku daga Juyin Juya Halin 1848
har zuwa 1851 juyin mulkin da Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. Realism wani motsi ne na fasaha wanda ya fara a Faransa a cikin 1850s, bayan juyin juya halin 1848. Daga ƙarshen ƙarni na 18 Romanticism ya mamaye fasahar Faransa da adabi amma Realists sun ƙi shi, waɗanda suka yi tawaye da nuna motsin zuciyar motsi na Romantic, suna neman nuna ainihin mutane da halaye na zamani da yanayi tare da gaskiya da daidaito.