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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2013
In spite of the effort to “conserve the past,” there were signs by the end of 1932 that the French body politic was undergoing more than passing tension and strain. By that time the impact of economic depression, slow in reaching France, had, in popular parlance, reached “crisis” proportions; and while crisis is a label which Frenchmen are prone to accord promiscuously to each and every change of ministries, it was gradually coming to connote something analogous in seriousness to the monetary disturbances which culminated in the near-collapse of 1925–26.
1 Cf. Brossolette, P., “France Conserves the Past”, Recovery (London), Aug. 25, 1933Google Scholar.
2 In France the majority of industrial workers of peasant origin, upon losing their jobs, rejoin their rural family households and are sustained by the land.
3 Decree of Oct. 22, 1932.
4 Although the provision, since the war, of various and sundry special allowances, bonuses, and perquisites brings the total compensation up to a level slightly better than in 1913.
5 One tax-payer group went so far as to advocate that civil servants be denied the right to vote.
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