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  2. 6 February 1934 crisis - Wikipedia

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    The 6 February 1934 crisis (also known as the Veterans' Riot [1]) was an anti-parliamentarist street demonstration in Paris, organized by multiple far-right leagues that culminated in a riot on the Place de la Concorde, near the building used for the French National Assembly.

  3. History of France (1900–present) - Wikipedia

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    The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search; Price, Roger. A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. [ISBN missing] Robb, Graham. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War (2007)

  4. 1995 strikes in France - Wikipedia

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    The strikes resumed 10 November when the transportation workers around France banded to protest the policy causing disruption in train and airway systems and touching as many as 80 cities in France. Despite the strikes Juppé announced the firmness of his position on the policy on 15 November which further angered Union workers around France. [3]

  5. Social situation in the French suburbs - Wikipedia

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    The problem for large parts of the Left was that they were often sharing the same discourse as Le Pen who used the affair to warn against 'the islamicisation of France'… in a splended example of the either/or choice facing France, in which there was is a convergence of many of the discursive elements mentioned above, the Prime Minister Michel ...

  6. Demonstration of 20 June 1792 - Wikipedia

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    The French Revolution, a Political History, 1789-1804, in 4 vols. Vol. I. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Hampson, Norman (1988). A Social History of the French Revolution. Routledge: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-710-06525-6. Lefebvre, Georges (1962). The French Revolution: from its Origins to 1793. Vol. I. New York: Columbia ...

  7. Political history of France - Wikipedia

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    The administrative and social structures of the Ancien Régime in France evolved across years of state-building, legislative acts (like the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts), and internal conflicts. The Valois dynasty's attempts at reform and at re-establishing control over the scattered political centres of the country were hindered by the Wars ...

  8. Flour War - Wikipedia

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    On the social level, sources witnessed an increase in social tensions and social polarization: a small group of elite rich farmers were opposed to the masses of increasingly poor farmers. The peasants, described by certain sources as insurgents, were accompanied by village officials (who were sometimes forced) and by parish priests, like in ...

  9. St. Bartholomew's Day massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Parlement's opposition and the court's absence from the wedding led to increased political tension. [7] Compounding this bad feeling was the fact that the harvests had been poor and taxes had risen. [8] The rise in food prices and the luxury displayed on the occasion of the royal wedding increased tensions among the common people.