ABSTRACT

An 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.

chapter 3|13 pages

The Dreyfus Affair and its aftermath

chapter |7 pages

Document 3.7 Emile Zola and the Press

part 4|1 pages

Women and the family

chapter 5|30 pages

The First World War

chapter 6|18 pages

France after the First World War

chapter |5 pages

Document 6.7 Women’s Suffrage

part |2 pages

Document 6.9 The Third International

chapter |8 pages

Document 6.11 Football

chapter 7|6 pages

The Popular Front

chapter |5 pages

Document 7.3 French Fascism

chapter 8|22 pages

The fall of France ( June 1940)

chapter |1 pages

General bibliography