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Posted By: pekau
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Date Posted: 10-Nov-2006 at 14:51
What are Opportunistic and Radical Ministries If possible, could you give example? (Examples based on Third Republic of France would be awesome) 
Thanks in advance.
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Posted By: Maharbbal
Date Posted: 13-Nov-2006 at 00:08
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The 'Opportunistes' are those who after the defeat of 1871 were for the Republic and against the Royalists (who at that time had the majority at the Assemblée Nationale i.e. Congress). They were in favour of a gradual rising of the Republic and Social Democracy using the backing of the peasants and the urban petty bourgeois. They were considered as moderate leftists, but they grew increasingly concervative. The most famous is Leon Gambetta. There were also Jules Ferry, Jules Favres, Jules Simon, Jules Grévy (the four Jules) and Charles Frécinet. The Radicaux were seen at the begining as more leftist. Their moto is private property and secularism (separation between the Church and the state in 1905). Their most famous members were Georges Clemenceau, Emile Combe and Ferdinand Buisson. They are seen as idealists and close to the free massons. But they are quickly overtook on their left by the socialists (Jean Jaurès). The new generation whith Herriot and Briant has little in commun with the previous radicaux of whom the bourgeois were afraid. Clemenceau himself will become pro-war and merely rightist during WWI. ------------- I am a free donkey! |
Posted By: pekau
Date Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 21:35
Awsome. Thanks
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