Second Empire and Third Republic

Question 1

Napoleon 1852-1859

Answer 1

conservatism (church)
double industrial production
triple foreign trade
intervention in crimea
intervention in mexico
birth of the French empire (1859)

Question 2

Napoleon’s 60s

Answer 2

• liberal government (and constitution)

- 1870 sedan

Question 3

Third republic

Answer 3

• Gambetta
• Paris’ Commune (Thiers)
• opportunists
• Panama Scandal
• Dreyfus affaire

Question 4

Hazareesingh

Answer 4

Napoleon has a modernising dictatorship

Question 5

Eugen Weber

Answer 5

peasants into frenchmen: peasants seen as savage, colonisation and disappearance of the indigenous cultures

Question 6

Weil

Answer 6

laws on nationality

Question 7

Agulhon

Answer 7

La République au village- republican symbols in villages; Marianne (a secular Mary)

Question 8

Rémond

Answer 8

orleanism: monarchist but accepting the liberal heritage of the revolution
Bonapartism: authoritarian and personal management of power; contempt for parliamentarian
Third republic: progressive hegemony of the left forces of the new coalitions

Question 9

Helavy

Answer 9

end of the notables

Question 10

Charle

Answer 10

putting into perspective the golden age of the French university

Question 11

lecour grandmaison

Answer 11

colonial policy of the French Republic

Question 12

zeldin

Answer 12

to be French means to be civilised (France leading European civilisation)
to be French is to speak French

Question 13

Durkenheim

Answer 13

widespread state of anomie (strong government to produce the missing unity). Third republic tried to implement these ideas.