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FRANCE IN FERMENT by Alexander Werth

FRANCE IN FERMENT

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Pub Date: Jan. 30th, 1935
ISBN: 0844609609
Publisher: Harper

Present day France -- journalistic account of the events of the immediate past. Not received in time to read but for informational purposes here is the following data. Content: 1933; France; Hitler and the World. Fall of Daladier, general unrest and parliamentary breakdown. Stavisky crisis. Street riots. Daladier's cabinet of ""energetic men"". Siege of the chambers and the Great Riots of February 6th. Daladier's surrender. Shop looting. Communistic riots. General Strike. M. Doumergue to the rescue. The Dijon murder mystery -- M. Prince. The Stavisky inquiry. The Doumergue government. France in ferment and the failure of French Democracy.