Changes in the French Government

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  • Louis Napolean won presedential election

  • Assembly did not change Constitution

    This did not allow Napolean to run for a second term.

  • Napolean dismissed Assembly and seized power

    Napolean did so illegally.

  • Napolean becomes heridetary emperor of France

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    New Banks, Railroad Construction, Rebuild of Paris and other things for success of economy.

  • (1860s) : Workers granted rights to form unions and strike

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    (1860s) Electoral system gradually disintergrates. Empire progressively liberalized.

  • New Constitution granted by Napolean

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    Franco-Prussian War

  • French army defeated by Prussia and Napolean captured

  • Paris surrenders to Prussia

  • France surrenders Alsace and Lorraine to Germany

  • Parisians made Paris Commune (Rev. Gov.)

  • National Assembly brutally crushed Commune

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    Gambetta helped establish absolute Parliamentary supremacy

    Marshall MacMahon (somewhat aristocratic president) forced to resign. Great majority of members of National Assembly become republicans by 1879.
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    Laws created for free education boys/girls. Expanded tax-supported schools.

    General expansion of public education. Schools in Catholic church became secular and national. Encouraged married couples to teach to help raise birthrate.
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    Dreyfus Affair

    Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, was falsely accused and ocnvicted of treason. In 1898-99, the case split France apart. One side was Catholic church against Dreyfus and on the other side stood the civil libertarians and most of the more radical republicans.
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    Government severed ties between state and Catholic Church

    Slaaries of priests and bishops no longer paid by govenment. Churches given to local communities. Catholic schools were put on their own financially. All because of Dreyfus Affair.