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1936, the Popular Front

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Roger-Viollet | 1024350 | Popular Front. Bastille Day parade. Procession towards the place de la Bastille. Paris, on July 14, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
2508-5 DG
Popular Front. Bastille Day parade. Procession towards the place de la Bastille. Paris, on July 14, [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 407615 |  Fête de l''Humanité , annual festival organized by the French communist newspaper  L''Humanité . A Spanish woman serving in the Republican faction. Garches (France), 1936. Photograph by Marcel Cerf (1911-2010). Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. | © Marcel Cerf / BHVP / Roger-Viollet
60272-6 DG
"Fête de l''Humanité", annual festival organized by the French communist newspaper "L''Humanité". A [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1085396 | Bastille Day parade. Placard with the text of the oath of the Popular Front in which the people of France swore to remain united to fight fascism. Paris, place de la Bastille, on July 14, 1935. | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
1355-2 DG
Bastille Day parade. Placard with the text of the oath of the Popular Front in which the people of [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 656467 | Popular Front. Bastille Day parade at the Buffalo stadium. Montrouge (France), on July 14, 1936. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
48-11 DG
Popular Front. Bastille Day parade at the Buffalo stadium. Montrouge (France), on July 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 1083931 | Popular Front. Bastille Day parade : crowd at the place de la Bastille. Foreground :  La France Républicaine . Paris, on July 14, 1936. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
54458-2 DG
Popular Front. Bastille Day parade : crowd at the place de la Bastille. Foreground : "La France [...]
Roger-Viollet | 248996 | Léon Blum (1872-1950), French politician, attending a rally at the Communards' Wall. Paris, circa 1936. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
48-12 DG
Léon Blum (1872-1950), French politician, attending a rally at the Communards' Wall. Paris, circa [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 1009602 | Popular Front. Striking workers from the Delahaye factories. Paris, June 1936. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
3356-5 DG
Popular Front. Striking workers from the Delahaye factories. Paris, June 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 574010 | Rally of the Spanish Popular Front (Frente Popular). Spain. | © Photo Rap / Roger-Viollet
48820-4 DG
Rally of the Spanish Popular Front (Frente Popular). Spain.
Roger-Viollet | 892200 | Popular Front. Anniversary of the Paris Commune at the Communards' Wall. Group of the SFIO (French Section of the Workers' International). First row, from leftto right : Albert Rivière, Oreste Rosenfeld et Amédée Dunois. Behind them : Mrs Blum, Bracke, Maurice Paz, Léon Blum, Jules Moch and Blumel (behind Rosenfeld) Paris, on May 24, 1936. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
1451-15 DG
Popular Front. Anniversary of the Paris Commune at the Communards' Wall. Group of the SFIO (French [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 180944 | Popular Front. Rally in the inner courtyard of the Renault car factory. Boulogne-Billancourt (France), on May 28, 1936. | © Collection Boyer / Roger-Viollet
604-7 DG
Popular Front. Rally in the inner courtyard of the Renault car factory. Boulogne-Billancourt [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 536497 | Popular Front. Rally at the Communards' Wall for the anniversary of the Paris Commune. Paris, on May, 24, 1936. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
1470-13 DG
Popular Front. Rally at the Communards' Wall for the anniversary of the Paris Commune. Paris, on [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 959543 | Celebration of Popular Front. Buffalo Stadium. Montrouge (France), July 14, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
4215-1 DG
Celebration of Popular Front. Buffalo Stadium. Montrouge (France), July 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 470081 | Rally of the Popular Front at the Buffalo Stadium. Montrouge (France), June 1936. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
52-15 DG
Rally of the Popular Front at the Buffalo Stadium. Montrouge (France), June 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 471630 | Popular Front on July 14, 1936. Communist youth movement. Paris (12th arrondissement). | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
7136-10 DG
Popular Front on July 14, 1936. Communist youth movement. Paris (12th arrondissement).
 
Roger-Viollet | 418616 | Popular Front. Procession, Place de la Bastille. Paris, July 14, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
87713-22 DG
Popular Front. Procession, Place de la Bastille. Paris, July 14, 1936.
Roger-Viollet | 896935 | Popular Front. Young united teams. Paris, on June 14, 1936. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
54458-6 DG
Popular Front. Young united teams. Paris, on June 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 970922 | Popular Front. Union of Communist Youth. Paris, on July 14, 1936. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
54458-8 DG
Popular Front. Union of Communist Youth. Paris, on July 14, 1936.
Roger-Viollet | 783667 | Popular Front. Young communist. Paris, on July 14, 1936. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
4222-5 DG
Popular Front. Young communist. Paris, on July 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 696224 | Rally of the Popular Front. Paris, 1936. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
1469-12 DG
Rally of the Popular Front. Paris, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 478589 | Popular Front. Point of a Communist organization's flag during a rally at the Buffalo stadium. Montrouge (France), June 14, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
87713-18 DG
Popular Front. Point of a Communist organization's flag during a rally at the Buffalo stadium. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 958564 | Popular Front. Striking workers occupying the Sautter-Harle factories requisitioned by the government, with a drawing portraying their boss hanged, June 1936. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
509-14 DG
Popular Front. Striking workers occupying the Sautter-Harle factories requisitioned by the [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 700091 | Popular Front. Communist rally. Satirical cartoon of Edouard Daladier during a rally at the Buffalo stadium. Montrouge (France), on June 14, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
21444-4 DG
Popular Front. Communist rally. Satirical cartoon of Edouard Daladier during a rally at the Buffalo [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 928092 | Rally of the Popular Front at the Buffalo Stadium. Montrouge (France), on June 14, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
3368-11 DG
Rally of the Popular Front at the Buffalo Stadium. Montrouge (France), on June 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 629822 | Popular Front. Celebration of June 14, 1936. Communist meeting at the Buffalo stadium. Montrouge (France). | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
4322-8 DG
Popular Front. Celebration of June 14, 1936. Communist meeting at the Buffalo stadium. Montrouge [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 202228 | Rally of supporters of the Popular Front at the Place de la Bastille. Paris, on July 14, 1936. Photograph by Marcel Cerf (1911-2010). Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. | © Marcel Cerf / BHVP / Roger-Viollet
60270-9 DG
Rally of supporters of the Popular Front at the Place de la Bastille. Paris, on July 14, 1936. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1032158 |  Fête de l'Humanité , annual festival organized by the French communist newspaper  L'Humanité . Maurice Thorez (1900-1964), French politician, talking to miners. Garches (France), 1936. Photograph by Marcel Cerf (1911-2010). Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. | © Marcel Cerf / BHVP / Roger-Viollet
55303-1 DG
"Fête de l'Humanité", annual festival organized by the French communist newspaper "L'Humanité". [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1018751 |  Fête de l'Humanité , annual festival organized by the French communist newspaper  L'Humanité . Marcel Cachin (1869-1958), French politician, making a speech. Garches (France), 1936. Photograph by Marcel Cerf (1911-2010). Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. | © Marcel Cerf / BHVP / Roger-Viollet
60272-10 DG
"Fête de l'Humanité", annual festival organized by the French communist newspaper "L'Humanité". [...]
Roger-Viollet | 551732 | Popular Front. Striking dressmaker's apprentices from a famous fashion house getting some milk for their breakfast. Paris, June 1936. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
4231-13 DG
Popular Front. Striking dressmaker's apprentices from a famous fashion house getting some milk for [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 304663 | Popular Front. Rally at the Buffalo stadium. Montrouge (France), on June 14, 1936. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
10163-12 DG
Popular Front. Rally at the Buffalo stadium. Montrouge (France), on June 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 763420 | Popular Front. Celebration at the Buffalo Stadium. Montrouge (France), June 14, 1936. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
21444-7 DG
Popular Front. Celebration at the Buffalo Stadium. Montrouge (France), June 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 886281 | Popular Front, June 1936. Striking employees of the Trois Quartiers department store having lunch. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
2205-10 DG
Popular Front, June 1936. Striking employees of the Trois Quartiers department store having lunch.
 
Roger-Viollet | 768820 |  Fête de l'Humanité , annual festival organized by the French communist newspaper  L'Humanité . Marcel Cachin (1869-1958) and Marcel Gitton (1930-1941), French politicians, with a Spanish woman serving in the Republican faction. Garches (France), 1936. Photograph by Marcel Cerf (1911-2010). Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. | © Marcel Cerf / BHVP / Roger-Viollet
60272-9 DG
"Fête de l'Humanité", annual festival organized by the French communist newspaper "L'Humanité". [...]
Roger-Viollet | 358888 | Front Populaire. Jeunesses communistes du 4ème arrondissement. Paris, 14 juillet 1936. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
87713-11 DG
Front Populaire. Jeunesses communistes du 4ème arrondissement. Paris, 14 juillet 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 163000 | Front Populaire. Jeunes filles des Jeunesses communistes. Paris, 14 juillet 1936. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
87713-6 DG
Front Populaire. Jeunes filles des Jeunesses communistes. Paris, 14 juillet 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 284372 | Popular Front. Young communist. Paris, on July 14, 1936. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
4222-1 DG
Popular Front. Young communist. Paris, on July 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 819351 | Popular Front. Bastille Day parade in Paris, on July 14, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
4215-2 DG
Popular Front. Bastille Day parade in Paris, on July 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 1073049 |  Fête de l'Humanité , annual festival organized by the French communist newspaper  L'Humanité . Maurice Thorez (1900-1964), French politician, with a group of miners. Garches (France), 1936. Photograph by Marcel Cerf (1911-2010). Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. | © Marcel Cerf / BHVP / Roger-Viollet
60271-14 DG
"Fête de l'Humanité", annual festival organized by the French communist newspaper "L'Humanité". [...]
Roger-Viollet | 330660 | Maurice Thorez, Pierre Cot, Georges Marrane and Migneau. 1936. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
15299-19 DG
Maurice Thorez, Pierre Cot, Georges Marrane and Migneau. 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 607467 | Communist banquet. From left to right : Louis Aragon, Elsa Triolet, Paul Vaillant-Couturier, Marcel Cachin and Jacques Duclos. On the wall : self-portrait of Paul Vaillant-Couturier that he painted in prison. on the far right : Gabriel Péri. France, 1936-1937. | © LAPI / Roger-Viollet
5159-1 DG
Communist banquet. From left to right : Louis Aragon, Elsa Triolet, Paul Vaillant-Couturier, Marcel [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 929778 | Rally in the presence of Benoît Frachon, Lucien Midol, Gaston Monmousseau, Henri Gourdeaux and Pierre Semard. Paris, Buffalo stadium, 1936. Photograph by Marcel Cerf (1911-2010). Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. | © Marcel Cerf / BHVP / Roger-Viollet
60271-4 DG
Rally in the presence of Benoît Frachon, Lucien Midol, Gaston Monmousseau, Henri Gourdeaux and [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1070406 | Maurice Thorez (1900-1964) and Jacques Duclos (1896-1975, French politicians. Ivry-sur-Seine (France), January 1937. | © LAPI / Roger-Viollet
15306-10 DG
Maurice Thorez (1900-1964) and Jacques Duclos (1896-1975, French politicians. Ivry-sur-Seine [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 434872 | Rally at the Communards' Wall. Middle row, from left to right : Zyromski, Marizet, Maurice Thorez, Léon Blum, Marcel Cachin, Thérèse Blum, Gitton and Jacques Duclos. Behind Marizet, in profile : Jules Moch. Far right : Marceau Pivert. Paris, Père-Lachaise cemetery, on May 24, 1936. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
3352-16 DG
Rally at the Communards' Wall. Middle row, from left to right : Zyromski, Marizet, Maurice Thorez, [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 730566 | Léon Blum, during a meeting organized by the S.F.I.O at the Velodrome d'hiver, while was discussed the  accords de Matignon, in the evening of June 7th, 1936. | © Photo Rap / Roger-Viollet
21296-1 DG
Léon Blum, during a meeting organized by the S.F.I.O at the Velodrome d'hiver, while was discussed [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 698796 |  Fête de l'Humanité , annual festival organized by the French communist newspaper  L'Humanité . Léon Jouhaux (1879-1954), French trade unionist, at the gallery. Garches (France), 1936. Photograph by Marcel Cerf (1911-2010). Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. | © Marcel Cerf / BHVP / Roger-Viollet
60297-14 DG
"Fête de l'Humanité", annual festival organized by the French communist newspaper "L'Humanité". [...]
Roger-Viollet | 884923 | Popular Front. Communist meeting, delegations of strikers at the Buffalo stadium. Montrouge (France), on June 14, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
56720-1 DG
Popular Front. Communist meeting, delegations of strikers at the Buffalo stadium. Montrouge [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 861240 | Popular Front. Communist rally at the Buffalo stadium. Montrouge (France), June 14, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
87713-20 DG
Popular Front. Communist rally at the Buffalo stadium. Montrouge (France), June 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 710517 | Popular Front. Communist meeting at Buffalo Stadium. Montrouge (France), June 14, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
4215-3 DG
Popular Front. Communist meeting at Buffalo Stadium. Montrouge (France), June 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 631679 | Popular Front. Bastille Day parade : rally, place de la Bastille. Paris, on July 14, 1936. | © Photo Rap / Roger-Viollet
54458-9 DG
Popular Front. Bastille Day parade : rally, place de la Bastille. Paris, on July 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 601238 | French Popular Front. Procession on the place de la Bastille. Paris, on July 14, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
87713-9 DG
French Popular Front. Procession on the place de la Bastille. Paris, on July 14, 1936.
 
Roger-Viollet | 558693 | Popular Front. Parade on Bastille Day parade. Paris, place de la Bastille, on July 14, 1936. | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
2368-13 DG
Popular Front. Parade on Bastille Day parade. Paris, place de la Bastille, on July 14, 1936.