Sometime you have to step back a bit if you want to see the present more soberly. We are in the early 1930s, a turbulent period, and in France, which is experiencing with some delay the consequences of the Great Crash. Between 1932 and 1934 unemployment increases by 25%, some 340,000 people are unemployed in the country. Successive changes of prime ministers do not solve anything, the budget is becoming more and more deficit. The middle and popular classes are most affected, which inspires a growing anti-parliamentarianism. The crisis is exacerbated by three political-economic scandals, culminating in the Stavinski case.
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2024-06-30 15:12:16