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Division and Democracy in France

Division and Democracy in France. HWH UNIT 7 CHAPTER 11.3. France Under Napoleon III (1852-70). Success and Popularity Economic prosperity Suez Canal Redesigned Paris Help for the lower class “Socialist Emperor” Limits on Liberty No democracy Censorship The “Liberal Empire”

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Division and Democracy in France

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  1. Division and Democracy in France HWH UNIT 7 CHAPTER 11.3

  2. France Under Napoleon III (1852-70) • Success and Popularity • Economic prosperity • Suez Canal • Redesigned Paris • Help for the lower class • “Socialist Emperor” • Limits on Liberty • No democracy • Censorship • The “Liberal Empire” • Loosened restrictions in 1860s

  3. France Under Napoleon III (1852-70) • Disastrous Foreign Policy • Crimean War, 1853 • Intervention in Italy, 1859 • Intervention in Mexico, 1863 • Franco-Prussian War, 1870

  4. The Franco-Prussian War, 1870 • The last piece of German unification

  5. The Siege of Paris, 1870

  6. The Paris Commune (March-May, 1871)

  7. The Paris Commune • National Assembly created after fall of Napoleon III • The Commune refused to recognize the new National Assembly • Wanted a socialist government • Assembly sent an army to crush the Commune

  8. France Under the 3rd Republic (1870-1940) • Bicameral Legislature • Senate • Chamber of Deputies • President (figurehead) • Premier (prime minister) • Many political parties • Coalitions • Unstable • 50 governments in 10 years • Official separation of Church and State (1905) • Few rights for women

  9. Domestic Turmoil • The Boulanger Affair (1886-1889) • Revanche! • The Dreyfus Affair (1894-1899)

  10. Emile Zola, J’Accuse

  11. The real traitor: Count Esterhazy

  12. Zionism • Theodor Herzl • Desire for a Jewish state in Israel • Fueled by Dreyfus affair and antisemitism across Europe

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