The Third Republic in France, 1870-1940: Conflicts and ContinuitiesAn essential introduction to the major political problems, debates and conflicts which are central to the history of the Third Republic in France, from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 to the fall of France in June 1940.It provides original sources, detailed commentary and helpful chronologies and bibliographies on topics including:* the emergence of the regime and the Paris Commune of 1871* Franco-German relations* anti-Semitism and the Dreyfus Affair* the role of women and the importance of the national birth-rate* the character of the French Right and of French fascism. |
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At precisely four o'clock and forty-five minutes in the afternoon, as I marked it by the great clock in the tower of the Hôtel de Ville, at one of the windows appeared Gambetta; a little behind him stood Jules Favre and Emmanuel Arago; ...
At precisely four o'clock and forty-five minutes in the afternoon, as I marked it by the great clock in the tower of the Hôtel de Ville, at one of the windows appeared Gambetta; a little behind him stood Jules Favre and Emmanuel Arago; ...
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The republican deputies, though, were divided: some belonged to the 1848 generation (Emmanuel Arago, Jules Favre, François Raspail), while Léon Gambetta and Henri Rochefort (just released from prison by the crowd, hence his pallor) were ...
The republican deputies, though, were divided: some belonged to the 1848 generation (Emmanuel Arago, Jules Favre, François Raspail), while Léon Gambetta and Henri Rochefort (just released from prison by the crowd, hence his pallor) were ...
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Meanwhile, on 18 September Jules Favre had met Bismarckinthe hope of securing at least an armistice, if nota peace treaty, only to discoverthe material guarantees on which Bismarck was now insisting – the surrender of several fortresses ...
Meanwhile, on 18 September Jules Favre had met Bismarckinthe hope of securing at least an armistice, if nota peace treaty, only to discoverthe material guarantees on which Bismarck was now insisting – the surrender of several fortresses ...
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103–4 In this letter to Jules Favre, Gambetta expressed what became the conventional wisdom, namely that, in surrendering Metz, Bazaine had betrayed France and was therefore a traitor. A military tribunal confirmed this view in 1873 by ...
103–4 In this letter to Jules Favre, Gambetta expressed what became the conventional wisdom, namely that, in surrendering Metz, Bazaine had betrayed France and was therefore a traitor. A military tribunal confirmed this view in 1873 by ...
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106–7 Adolphe Thiers, whose long political career had begun in the 1820s and who, as an opposition Paris deputy, had played a role in the formation of the Government of National Defence on 4 September, was invited by Jules Favre to ...
106–7 Adolphe Thiers, whose long political career had begun in the 1820s and who, as an opposition Paris deputy, had played a role in the formation of the Government of National Defence on 4 September, was invited by Jules Favre to ...
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Contents
| 1 | |
2 The political Right and Left in the early Third Republic | 24 |
3 The Dreyfus Affair and its aftermath | 50 |
4 Women and the family | 80 |
5 The First World War | 106 |
6 France after the First World War | 136 |
7 The Popular Front | 172 |
8 The fall of France June 1940 | 211 |
General bibliography | 252 |
Index | 253 |
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| Title | The Third Republic in France, 1870-1940: Conflicts and Continuities |
| Author | William Fortescue |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2017 |
| ISBN | 1351540017, 9781351540018 |
| Length | 272 pages |
| Subjects | › History / General |
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