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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Conflicts and Continuities William Fortescue. Document. 1.10. The. Paris. Commune. and. Socialism. The Commune of Paris, Considering that a number of workshops have been abandoned by those who ran them in order to escape their civic ...
Conflicts and Continuities William Fortescue. Document. 1.10. The. Paris. Commune. and. Socialism. The Commune of Paris, Considering that a number of workshops have been abandoned by those who ran them in order to escape their civic ...
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... Institute shall be abolished and shall no longer have a raison d'être except as a private association. The Ecole de Rome shall also be abolished and so The emergence of the Third Republic, 1870–1 17 Document 1.11 Art and the Paris Commune.
... Institute shall be abolished and shall no longer have a raison d'être except as a private association. The Ecole de Rome shall also be abolished and so The emergence of the Third Republic, 1870–1 17 Document 1.11 Art and the Paris Commune.
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... Paris over the provinces shall be abolished as well. The drawing teachers of the parochial schools of Paris shall be ... Commune he promoted 18 The emergence of the Third Republic, 1870–1.
... Paris over the provinces shall be abolished as well. The drawing teachers of the parochial schools of Paris shall be ... Commune he promoted 18 The emergence of the Third Republic, 1870–1.
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... . I cannot tell you what joy we all felt when we saw the real French flag [the Tricolore, as opposed to the red flag of the The emergence of the Third Republic, 1870–1 19 Document 1.12 The Defeat of the Paris Commune.
... . I cannot tell you what joy we all felt when we saw the real French flag [the Tricolore, as opposed to the red flag of the The emergence of the Third Republic, 1870–1 19 Document 1.12 The Defeat of the Paris Commune.
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... Commune. Even the women fired from the windows, and threw pavingstones on the soldiers' heads; and some, dressed in men's clothes, fought behind the barricades. The army has been obliged to take Paris almost street by street, the ...
... Commune. Even the women fired from the windows, and threw pavingstones on the soldiers' heads; and some, dressed in men's clothes, fought behind the barricades. The army has been obliged to take Paris almost street by street, the ...
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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