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FRONT POPULAIRE (3760 words) |
 | The Front Populaire then, was a broad coalition of the Left and centre-Left and of the major trade unions. |
| A number of factors facilitated the creation of le Front Populaire: the economic crisis, the internal threat from far Right (exacerbated by the anti-parliamentary violence of 6th February 1934) and the international fascist menace and threat of war. |
| Although the Front populaire sought to combat the rise of the Far Right in France, it is one of the paradoxes of the coalition that it actually increased during the 4 years of the Front's existence as a government. |
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Marcel Dassault - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (184 words) |
| He invented a type of aircraft propeller used by the French army during World War I and founded the Societé des Avions Marcel Bloch aircraft company. |
| Following the nationalization of his company in 1936, under the Front Populaire, he stayed as a director. |
| As a Jew, he was deported to Buchenwald during World War II, refusing collaboration with the German aviation industry. |
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