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What connects Camille Chautemps, Edouard Daladier, Gaston Doumergue and Pierre-Etienne Flandin to Elisabeth Borne, Gabriel Attal, Michel Barnier and François Bayrou?

The first 4 had been president of the council the final time France had 4 totally different heads of presidency in a single calendar 12 months: in 1934! Not precisely the golden age of the Third Republic. The 12 months 1934 started in a heavy local weather of anti-parliamentarism, fueled by a number of corruption scandals. The most well-known of them, the Stavisky affair, precipitated the autumn of the federal government of radical Camille Chautemps on January 27.

His successor, Edouard Daladier, additionally from the unconventional occasion, failed to take care of his place. Under strain from the road, he was pressured to resign on February 7. The day earlier than, February 6, the far-right leagues demonstrated in Paris aiming to take the Palais Bourbon, the place Mr. Daladier and his authorities had been to be invested. The demonstration degenerated right into a bloody confrontation, leaving 15 useless and almost a thousand injured.

To carry again a semblance of stability, the previous President of the Republic Gaston Doumergue, additionally radical, is known as to go a authorities of“national union”. This cupboard introduced a momentary respite and marked the entry into politics of a sure Philippe Pétain, then a novice in ministerial affairs.

Political instability can also be the results of financial and social instability: “Great Depression”coming from the United States, reached France in these years. Since the beginning of the last decade, that is already the fourth 12 months that the nation has had 4 totally different council presidents between January 1 and December 31. The Doumergue authorities tried to cease this spiral by proposing constitutional reforms, however its efforts led to failure.

On October 9, the homicide of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louis Barthou, additional shook the federal government. Gaston Doumergue resigned on November 8, giving strategy to Pierre-Etienne Flandin, from the ranks of the precise. The latter dominated the nation till May 1935. During this time, the left organized itself: in response to the demonstration of February 6, which it perceived because the image of the fascist risk in France, started the formation of what turned the Popular Front which received the 1936 elections.