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. |
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... Thiers, an opposition Paris deputy, proposed that the Legislative Body should declare the throne vacant, dismiss the existing government, form a new government commission, attempt to secure an armistice from the Germans, and convoke a ...
... Thiers, an opposition Paris deputy, proposed that the Legislative Body should declare the throne vacant, dismiss the existing government, form a new government commission, attempt to secure an armistice from the Germans, and convoke a ...
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... Thiers, 1870-1873. London: Allen & Unwin. 1915, pp. 106-7 Adolphe Thiers, whose long political career had begun in the l820s 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 l820s 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 2 l February to discuss the peace terms. ln the exchanges recorded by Thiers, Bismarck repeated his territorial demands and claimed an indemnity of ...
... Thiers as head of the executive. Having formed his government, Thiers met Bismarck on 2 l February to discuss the peace terms. ln the exchanges recorded by Thiers, Bismarck repeated his territorial demands and claimed an indemnity of ...
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... Thiers faced a militantly radicalized Paris with a greatly expanded and radicalized National Guard that had not been disarmed. ln vanous 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. ln vanous ways the National Assembly and the Thiers government, both based in Versailles, alienated the ...
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Contents
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The political Right and Left in the early Third Republic | 24 |
The Dreyfus Affair and its aftermath | 50 |
Women and the family | 80 |
The First World War | 106 |
France after the First World War | 136 |
The Popular Front | 172 |
The fall of France June l940 2l l | 211 |
General bibliography | 252 |
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