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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... radical. In the Government of National Defence, which was formed late in the afternoon of 4 September, Gambetta became Minister of the Interior, butmoderate republicans predominated–Jules Favre (Foreign Affairs), Adolphe Crémieux ...
... radical. In the Government of National Defence, which was formed late in the afternoon of 4 September, Gambetta became Minister of the Interior, butmoderate republicans predominated–Jules Favre (Foreign Affairs), Adolphe Crémieux ...
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... radical lawyer and in the general parliamentary elections of May 1869 had been elected in constituencies in both Paris and Marseilles. As Minister of the Interior in the Government of National Defence he quickly emerged as one of the ...
... radical lawyer and in the general parliamentary elections of May 1869 had been elected in constituencies in both Paris and Marseilles. As Minister of the Interior in the Government of National Defence he quickly emerged as one of the ...
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... radical popular movement developed demanding a vigorous prosecution of the war, reliance on mass conscription rather than on the regular army and elected Paris municipal councillors and National Guard officers. With the founding of ...
... radical popular movement developed demanding a vigorous prosecution of the war, reliance on mass conscription rather than on the regular army and elected Paris municipal councillors and National Guard officers. With the founding of ...
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... radical coups on 31 October and 22 January, refusing to introduce radical measures (eventhe introduction of bread-rationing was delayed until 18 January), and agreeing to an armistice on 28 January. One of the conditions of the ...
... radical coups on 31 October and 22 January, refusing to introduce radical measures (eventhe introduction of bread-rationing was delayed until 18 January), and agreeing to an armistice on 28 January. One of the conditions of the ...
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... radical left at this time. He emerged at the end of the Second Empire as a strike leader among Paris metal-workers and as a member of the Socialist International. After 4 September 1870 he became a colonel in the Paris National Guard ...
... radical left at this time. He emerged at the end of the Second Empire as a strike leader among Paris metal-workers and as a member of the Socialist International. After 4 September 1870 he became a colonel in the Paris National Guard ...
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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