عدم الاستقرار الوزاري في فرنسا 1914-1939

Abstract

The French Third Republic 1870-1939 went through heavy events from its foundation until its fall at the hands of the Germans in World War II. It suffered from the ravages of war, as it entered into three devastating wars (1870-1871) (1914-1918) and the last (1939-1945), which is the war in which the French Third Republic fell, and parts of its lands were occupied in those wars. In addition to those external dangers, there were internal disturbances represented by party differences, coups, moral and financial scandals, and the interference of external political parties in the formation of some French governments, in addition to the control of the men of the financial sector represented by the Bank of France and the 200 families that control that sector. This was reflected in its political path, which in turn created a society with multiple ideologies, politics and thought, and this affected the path of governance inside France. Therefore, we notice the conflict between the right and left blocs and parties, and between the French politicians themselves, and the formation of these parties of an electoral bloc in the periodic elections that were held every four years, and thus the political map of the governments was drawn according to the results of those elections. The phenomenon of political confusion and the rapid change of French governments became widespread, and the political parties played a major role in this political confusion, which affected its internal structure and hastened the collapse of the Third Republic in front of the German forces in its last war.