The Pictures at the Paris Exhibition. II. The French Section

1878 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Lucy H. Hooper
Keyword(s):  
French Section

Popular Front

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécile Guédon
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Popular Front ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
French Government ◽  
French Communist Party ◽  
French Section

An alliance of left-wing movements in France, the Popular Front (Front Populaire) won the May 1936 elections, leading to the first French government headed by a socialist prime minister, Léon Blum (1872–1950), from 5 June 1936 to 21 June 1937. After the anti-parliamentarian riots of 6 February 1934, which violently opposed fascist leagues to leftist organisations, the three main left-wing parties, Radical-Socialists, the Section française de l’internationale ouvrière (SFIO, the French Section of the Workers’ International) and the Parti communiste français (PCF, French Communist Party), joined forces, giving way in 1935 to one unified group to counter the rise of fascism in France.

In Memoriam Raymond Aron 1905-1983

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-278
Author(s):  
David Riesman
Keyword(s):  
Anti Semitism ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
Raymond Aron ◽  
French Section

Raymond Aron, President of the French section of the Tocqueville Society, died on October 17th, 1983. He collapsed after testifying on behalf of Bertrand de Jouvenel in a defamation suit which the latter had brought against an Israeli historian who had described him as having contributed to the development of fascist ideology. Raymond Aron was also defending France against what he regarded as extravagant Zionist accusations of embedded anti-Semitism. Raymond Aron’s first loyalty was to the truth, which he knew consisted of imprecise and shifting approximations; his second loyalty was that of a patriot, bound to France, its language, culture, immanent and transcendent values, and history.

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