The Twilight of France, 1933-1940

Introduction
	Contents
	BOOK I: 1933-36
	I.	NON-STOP 1919-32
	II.	THE ABORTIVE FRONT POPULAIRE OF 1932
	III.	THE SIXTH OF FEBRUARY AND AFTER
	IV.	PARLIAMENT BULLIED BY THE STREET— THE CROIX DE FEU
	V. DOUMERGUE’S PLOT AGAINST THE REPUBLIC
	VI.	ENTER LAVAL
	VII.	BUILDING ON SAND
	VIII.	CHAMBER VERSUS BANK OF FRANCE
	IX.	THE RISE OF THE FRONT POPULAIRE
	X.	FRANCE AND ABYSSINIA
	XI.	THE FALL OF LAVAL
	XII.	FRANCE A SECOND-CLASS POWER?
	XIII.	THE ELECTION OF 1936 AND THE FRONT POPULAIRE PROGRAMME
	XIV.	INFORMAL NOTES ON A TOUR THROUGH VARIOUS PARTS OF FRANCE IN APRIL 19S6
	XV.	ENTER LÉON BLUM
	XVI.	THE GREAT STRIKES OF JUNE 1936
	XVII.	WHAT THE WORKERS GAINED
	XVIII. ‘200 FAMILIES’ AND ‘MERCHANTS OF DEATH’
	XIX.	LA ROCQUE AND DORIOT
	XX.	‘AEROPLANES FOR SPAIN!’
	XXL ‘GRINGOIRE’ AND THE SUICIDE OF ROGER SALENGRO
	BOOK II: 1937-39
	I.	1937
	II.	FRANCO-CZECH IDYLL
	III.	THE TROUBLE STARTS
	IV.	FRANCE AFTER THE ANSCHLUSS
	VII. ROYAL INTERLUDE
	VIII.	AUGUST: THE RUNCIMAN RESPITE
	IX.	WAS MUNICH INEVITABLE?
	XI.	SEPTEMBER: BEFORE BERCHTESGADEN
	XII.	BERCHTESGADEN TO GODESBERG
	XIII. FRENCH MOBILIZATION AND THE SCARE DAYS IN PARIS
	XIV.	THE MUNICH TRIUMPH
	XV.	THE CONFUSION AFTER MUNICH
	XVI.	DALADIER BREAKS THE GENERAL STRIKE
	XVII.	RIBBENTROP IN PARIS
	XVIII.	‘TUNIS! CORSICA! NICE!’—THE END OF THE SPANISH WAR—THE END OF MUNICH
EPILOGUE
	I. THE SEEDS OF VICHY
	II. VICHY
Index