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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since New Year's, Frenchmen have celebrated with pomp & circumstance the hundredth anniversaries of Romanticism, of the conquest of Algeria, of the invention of the sewing machine.* Last week in Paris, their centennial enthusiasm undiminished, President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister André Tardieu clapped on their silk hats, motored to the Hotel de Ville behind a clattering escort of brass-helmeted cuirassiers of the Garde Républicaine to make oratory on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Revolution of 1830, which in three days of furious street fighting† swept Charles X from the throne of France, installed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Again 1830 | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...morning of the celebration, to the huge amusement of Socialist deputies and editors, Prime Minister Tardieu had had a long interview with the military commander of Paris discussing precautions that must be taken to prevent any Communist demonstration on Aug. 1. A trifle tartly M. Tardieu explained the subtle difference between the revolutionists of 1830, whom he delighted to honor, and the revolutionists of 1930 whom he was eager to suppress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Again 1830 | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...Tardieu v. Blum. Amid the good and ill-natured hubbub, henchmen of Prime Minister Andre Tardieu adroitly slipped through bill after vital bill. When he refused to allow further debate on several measures, Socialist Blum taunted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buried Alive? | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...these past nine months," shot back M. Tardieu, "you have been doing nothing but trying to prevent my projects from succeeding and now you want to go on talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buried Alive? | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...last, during a lull, M. Tardieu by raising an eyebrow signaled one of his Deputies who quietly proposed that the Prime Minister make the next vote one of confidence. He did so, won by a majority of 48, not astounding but sufficient. Quick as a magician producing a rabbit, M. Tardieu drew from his pocket and read to the Chamber an executive order signed by the President of France, genial Bachelor Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue, adjourning Parliament until November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buried Alive? | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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