HISTORY 2037 - France from the Dreyfus Affair to the Vichy Period

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Bard College

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Description:

French Studies This course focuses on a crucial 50-year period in French history, beginning with a survey of France in 1894, with particular emphasis on the socioeconomic and political roots of the Dreyfus Affair, and continuing with the affair itself and its aftermath. Students then consider France in the so-called "Belle époque"; France in the FirsWorld War; prosperity and problems in the 1920s; the rise of the extreme right and the advent of the Popular Front (1929-36); the twilight of the Third Republic and the defeat of 1940; and the Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. In addition to political and economic aspects (including colonialism), the course examines the exceptional artistic and literary flowering that characterized France during these decades, along with scientific progress.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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