TOWARD THE 20TH CENTURY

UNIONS AND STRIKES REPLACE REVOLT

In France, the terrible repression of La Commune brought

the end of insurrections and the start of a struggle between

capital and labor that was deeper and more bitter than elsewhere.

It brought:

• The Popular Front of 1936-1939.

• The Vichy regime, the only collaborationist government to be legally elected in Europe.

• The largely left-wing Resistance.

• Because right-wing leaders were in hiding, in prison or shot, the generous social safety net that largely remains.

End of this chapter.

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VlI.

The A Communard bastion erased and transformed: 

The overlooked 13th