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France Since 1871

Yale,, Fall 2007 , Prof. John Merriman

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

Overview

Introduction - The Paris Commune and Its Legacy - Centralized State and Republic - A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity - The Waning of Religious Authority - Workshop and Factory - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left - Dynamite Club: The Anarchists - General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus - Cafs and the Culture of Drink - Paris and the Belle poque - French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith) - The Origins of World War I - Trench Warfare - The Home Front - The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes) - The Popular Front - The Dark Years: Vichy France - Resistance - Battles For and Against Americanization - Vietnam and Algeria - Charles De Gaulle - May 1968 - Immigration

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Lecture 14: Trench Warfare

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France Since 1871 (HIST 276)

The sacred union that united Frances political parties during World War I contributed to a resilient morale on the home front. Germanys invasion of France, and the conflict over Alsace-Lorraine in particular, contributed to French concern over atrocities and the national investment in the war effort. New weapons and other fighting technologies, coupled with the widespread use of trenches, made fighting tremendously difficult and gruesome on all fronts.

0000 - Chapter 1. The Schlieffen Plan German Hopes for an Early Victory
0716 - Chapter 2. The Early War of Movement The Battle of the Marne and the Salvation of France
1347 - Chapter 3. From Movement to Attrition The Development of Trench Warfare
2200 - Chapter 4. The Identity of the Citizen-Soldier Society During and After the War
3430 - Chapter 5. Conditions on the Front The Nature of Machine Warfare

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This course was recorded in Fall 2007.