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The Popular Front won the general election of 3 May 1936, with 386 seats out of 608. For the first time, the Socialists won more seats than the Radical-Socialists, and the Socialist leader, Léon Blum, became the first Socialist Prime Minister of France and the first Jew to hold that office.
The pressure for a Popular Front came more from the Communist leader Maurice Thorez who following the new line from the Comintern called in October 1934 for "a Popular Front of work, liberty and peace" while Blum played a more passive role. [82] Blum did not trust Thorez, and was weary of his offers for an alliance. [83]
Popular Front (France), left-wing anti-fascist coalition in France in the 1930s, was led by Léon Blum's French Section of the Workers' Internationalbut also included communistsand social democrats. New Popular Front, a broad left-wing electoral alliance in France launched on 10 June 2024. Popular Front (Spain), an electoral coalition formed in ...
Members of the Popular Front coalition at a rally celebrating Bastille Day, July 14, 1936. From left: Thérèse Blum (wife of Léon Blum), Léon Blum (Socialist Premier of France), and Maurice Thorez (French Communist leader). Gallica Digital Library. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
A broad-based popular front government was elected in Spain in February 1936. Considerable turmoil followed, however, and in July 1936 General Francisco Franco led a Fascist insurrection against the legal government. At first the Soviets, and indeed Léon Blum’s French Popular Front, advocated nonintervention.
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BLUM, LÉON (1872–1950) French politician. Léon Blum tends to be identified with the "ray of sunshine" of the Popular Front reforms of 1936, which he gallantly cited before the Supreme Court when the Vichy government brought him to trial in 1942. A Socialist and a Jew, this president of the Council of State (Conseil d'État) was despised on ...
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Popular Front government in 1936. It also has the advantage of having been studied recently by a number of historians.2 Whatever had been wrong with French national life in the recent past, it could be argued in 1936 that these wrongs had been put right. To begin on a personal level, a certain type of politician had seemed to predominate in the
