Léon Blum : man and statesman /
Fraser, Geoffrey.
Léon Blum : man and statesman / by Geoffrey Fraser and Thadee Natanson - London, England : Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1937 - 320 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes index, an appendix containing the Popular Front's political demands, and a letter from Léon Blum's son.
Chapter I. The child Léon: 1872-1881 -- II. The undisciplined student: 1881-91 -- III. The clever young-man-about-town: 1892-96 -- IV. Jaurés takes a hand -- V. The Dreyfus affair -- VI. The ripening of a man: 1896-1914 -- VII. French pre-war socialism -- VIII. The writer and critic -- IX. The world-war and Blum's first political activity: 1914-1918 -- X. Governmental reform and the peace -- XI. Léon Blum enters parliament and is called to the bar -- XII. The scission of the French Labour Movement -- XIII. Building up a new party -- XIV. Vicissitudes -- XV. Changes, personal, and political -- XVI. The fascist coup and the birth of the Popular Front -- XVII. Laying the foundations of victory -- XVIII. Electoral victory: Blum becomes prime minister -- XIX. Blum's record as prime minister -- XX. The fight with the Senate -- XXI. Léon Blum as vice premier
"André Léon Blum (French: [ɑ̃dʁe leɔ̃ blum];[1] 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France. As a Jew, he was heavily influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 19th century. He was a disciple of French Socialist leader Jean Jaurès and after Jaurès' assassination in 1914, became his successor. As Prime Minister in a Popular Front government of the left 1936–37, he provided a series of major economic reforms. Blum declared neutrality in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) to avoid the civil conflict spilling over into France itself. Once out of office in 1938, he denounced the appeasement of Germany. When Germany defeated France in 1940, he became a staunch opponent of Vichy France. Tried by Vichy on trumped-up charges, he was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. After the war, he resumed a transitional leadership role in French politics, helping to bring about the French Fourth Republic, until his death in 1950." -- from Wikipedia.
38015619
Blum, Léon, 1872-1950.
France--Politics and government--1914-1940.
DC 373.B5 / F7 1937
Léon Blum : man and statesman / by Geoffrey Fraser and Thadee Natanson - London, England : Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1937 - 320 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes index, an appendix containing the Popular Front's political demands, and a letter from Léon Blum's son.
Chapter I. The child Léon: 1872-1881 -- II. The undisciplined student: 1881-91 -- III. The clever young-man-about-town: 1892-96 -- IV. Jaurés takes a hand -- V. The Dreyfus affair -- VI. The ripening of a man: 1896-1914 -- VII. French pre-war socialism -- VIII. The writer and critic -- IX. The world-war and Blum's first political activity: 1914-1918 -- X. Governmental reform and the peace -- XI. Léon Blum enters parliament and is called to the bar -- XII. The scission of the French Labour Movement -- XIII. Building up a new party -- XIV. Vicissitudes -- XV. Changes, personal, and political -- XVI. The fascist coup and the birth of the Popular Front -- XVII. Laying the foundations of victory -- XVIII. Electoral victory: Blum becomes prime minister -- XIX. Blum's record as prime minister -- XX. The fight with the Senate -- XXI. Léon Blum as vice premier
"André Léon Blum (French: [ɑ̃dʁe leɔ̃ blum];[1] 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France. As a Jew, he was heavily influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 19th century. He was a disciple of French Socialist leader Jean Jaurès and after Jaurès' assassination in 1914, became his successor. As Prime Minister in a Popular Front government of the left 1936–37, he provided a series of major economic reforms. Blum declared neutrality in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) to avoid the civil conflict spilling over into France itself. Once out of office in 1938, he denounced the appeasement of Germany. When Germany defeated France in 1940, he became a staunch opponent of Vichy France. Tried by Vichy on trumped-up charges, he was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. After the war, he resumed a transitional leadership role in French politics, helping to bring about the French Fourth Republic, until his death in 1950." -- from Wikipedia.
38015619
Blum, Léon, 1872-1950.
France--Politics and government--1914-1940.
DC 373.B5 / F7 1937