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Author Derfler, Leslie.

Title The third French republic 1870-1940 / Leslie Derfler
Published Princeton, N.J. : Van Nostrand, [1966]

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Description 191 pages ; 18 cm
Series Anvil original ; 87
Anvil original ; 87
Contents The birth of the republic: 1870-1875 -- The victory of the republicans: 1875-1879 -- The years of opportunism: 1879-1899 -- The years of radicalism: 1899-1912 -- The crisis of World War I: 1911-1919 -- Bloc, cartel, and national union: 1919-1930 -- The leagues and the popular front: 1930-1938 -- The death of the republic: 1938-1940 -- The republic proclaimed: September 4, 1870 -- The Paris Communi -- Thiers calls for a conservative republic, November 13, 1872 -- The Chambord Manifesto, 1873 -- The consitutional laws of 1875 -- The crisis of the sixteenth of May -- The opportunism of Gambetta and Ferry -- Clemenceau and radicalism -- Imperialism and the third republic -- Rural France: the persistence of peasant ownership -- Meline defends protetionism, 1891 -- Boulangism -- The ralliement -- Divisions in French socialism -- The Freyfus affair -- The separation of church and state -- The "action Francaise" -- Revolutionary syndicalism -- The Franco-Russian alliance -- World War I and the republic -- The emergence of the French Communist party: the "Twenty-one conditions" -- France searches for security -- Poincare saves the Franc -- The riot of February 6, 1934 -- The popular front -- Two appeals to the French: June, 1940 -- The suicide of the republic: July 10, 1940
Summary Brief documentary survey of the major political and social decisions of the Third French Republic
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 185-187
SUBJECT France -- History -- Third Republic, 1870-1940. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051411
LC no. 66003410
Other Titles 3rd French Republic, 1870-1940