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France - Interwar, Politics, Economy: Frenchmen concentrated much of their energy during the early 1920s on recovering from the war. The government undertook a vast program of reconstructing the devastated areas and had largely completed that task by 1925. To compensate for manpower losses, immigration barriers were lowered, and two million foreign workers flooded into the country. Underlying ...
Georges Suarez. Georges Suarez (1933) Georges Suarez (8 November 1890 – 9 November 1944), was a French writer, essayist, journalist, and jurist. Initially a pacifist during the rise of Nazi Germany, and later a right-wing journalist and collaborator. [1] He had been editor of Aujourd'hui, a French newspaper controlled by the Third Reich after ...
Étienne Jeaurat, Le transport des filles de joie de l'Hôpital, 1755, musée Carnavalet. The history of prostitution in France has similarities with the history of prostitution in other countries in Europe, namely a succession of periods of tolerance and repression, but with certain distinct features such as a relatively long period of tolerance of brothels.
Emirate of Afghanistan. Alawite State. Albanian Kingdom (1928–1939) Albanian Republic (1925–1928) State of Aleppo. Arab Kingdom of Syria. Republic of Ararat. Federal State of Austria. First Austrian Republic.
History of Canada. During the World Wars and Interwar Years, 1914–1947, Canada experienced economic gain, more freedom for women, and new technological advancements. There were severe political tensions over issues of war and ethnicity, and heavy military casualties.
Extract. One of the defining paradoxes of interwar France was the coexistence of a deep-rooted belief in national decadence with the development of a wide range of innovative organisations, cumulatively mobilising millions of people, as a means of fighting this supposed decline. While women played a key role in perpetuating the belief that the ...
Clara Fanny Olivier (February 17, 1875, 4th arrondissement of Paris – February 24, 1944), known by her pen name Fanny Clar, was a French journalist and writer, as well as a socialist intellectual (as defined by the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). [1] She is also remembered for her commitment to pacifism and feminism.
