Memory of War in France, 1914–45 pp 81-99 | Cite as
A Candide for the 1930s: The Myths of the Popular Front
Abstract
Fauxbras’s next novel Antide subtitled ‘the fraudulent failures’ depicts the bewildering kaleidoscope of French politics from the Great War to the International Exhibition of 1937.1 With an original subtitle of ‘or Marxism’, its subject was the French left. The period of the two world wars witnessed a significant remaking of the left in France. Prior to the First World War, two key organizations of the labour movement had only recently come into being. The SFIO formed in 1905.2 The syndicalist trade union movement was centred initially on the bourses du travail, institutions that combined the functions of labour exchange and worker’s meeting halls. The movement came together to form the CGT in 1895 establishing its constitution in 1906 entitled the Charter of Amiens.
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