division and democracy in france
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Division and Democracy in France. HWH UNIT 7 CHAPTER 11.3. France Under Napoleon III (1852-70). Success and Popularity Economic prosperity Suez Canal Redesigned Paris Help for the lower class “Socialist Emperor” Limits on Liberty No democracy Censorship The “Liberal Empire” - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
HWH UNIT 7CHAPTER 11.3
Division and Democracy in France
France Under Napoleon III (1852-70)
Success and PopularityEconomic prosperity
Suez CanalRedesigned ParisHelp for the lower class
“Socialist Emperor”Limits on Liberty
No democracyCensorship
The “Liberal Empire”Loosened restrictions in
1860s
France Under Napoleon III (1852-70)
Disastrous Foreign PolicyCrimean War, 1853Intervention in
Italy, 1859Intervention in
Mexico, 1863 Franco-Prussian
War, 1870
The Franco-Prussian War, 1870The last piece of German unification
The Siege of Paris, 1870
The Paris Commune (March-May, 1871)
The Paris CommuneNational Assembly
created after fall of Napoleon IIIThe Commune refused
to recognize the new National AssemblyWanted a socialist
governmentAssembly sent an army
to crush the Commune
France Under the 3rd Republic (1870-1940)
Bicameral LegislatureSenateChamber of Deputies
President (figurehead)Premier (prime minister)Many political parties
CoalitionsUnstable
50 governments in 10 yearsOfficial separation of Church and State
(1905)Few rights for women
The Boulanger Affair (1886-1889)Revanche!
The Dreyfus Affair (1894-1899)
Domestic Turmoil
Emile Zola, J’Accuse
The real traitor: Count Esterhazy
ZionismTheodor HerzlDesire for a Jewish
state in Israel Fueled by Dreyfus
affair and antisemitism across Europe
