La puissance française sous le Front populaire : le regard des Belges francophones ; France’s power under the Popular Front : the vision of French-speaking Belgians

peer reviewed ; Did the French-speaking Belgian opinion, in close contact with France, perceive a decay of the French power under the Popular Front? Well-meaning analyses from a balanced point of view are met with inflammatory - though sometimes full of nuances - attacks from the most conservative wing and with the bitter disappointment of the socialist-communist fold (except the « socialistes nationaux »). Those judgements are conditioned by the turning point of October 1936: non-intervention in the Spanish conflict; improvement of the French internal conditions; Belgian choice for an indepen... Mehr ...