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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... Thiers, an opposition Paris deputy, proposed that the Legislative Body should declarethethrone vacant, dismissthe existing government, form anew government commission, attempt to secure an armistice from the Germans, and convoke a new ...
... Thiers, an opposition Paris deputy, proposed that the Legislative Body should declarethethrone vacant, dismissthe existing government, form anew government commission, attempt to secure an armistice from the Germans, and convoke a new ...
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... Thiers, 1870–1873. London: Allen & Unwin. 1915, pp. 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 ...
... Thiers, 1870–1873. London: Allen & Unwin. 1915, pp. 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 ...
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... Thiers as head of the executive. Having formed his government, Thiers met Bismarck on 21 February to discuss the peace terms. In the exchanges recorded by Thiers, Bismarck repeated his territorial demands and claimed an indemnity of six ...
... Thiers as head of the executive. Having formed his government, Thiers met Bismarck on 21 February to discuss the peace terms. In the exchanges recorded by Thiers, Bismarck repeated his territorial demands and claimed an indemnity of six ...
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... Thiers faced a militantly radicalized Paris with a greatly expanded and radicalized National Guard that had not been disarmed. In various ways the National Assembly and the Thiers government, both based in Versailles, alienated the ...
... Thiers faced a militantly radicalized Paris with a greatly expanded and radicalized National Guard that had not been disarmed. In various ways the National Assembly and the Thiers government, both based in Versailles, alienated the ...
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... Thiers, whose Paris house the Commune demolished. Nevertheless, Courbet was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and, denied state patronage, he lived the rest of his life in impoverished exile in Switzerland. Underthe Third Republic ...
... Thiers, whose Paris house the Commune demolished. Nevertheless, Courbet was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and, denied state patronage, he lived the rest of his life in impoverished exile in Switzerland. Underthe Third Republic ...
Contents
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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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