Abstract
‘One must learn’, Edmond Maire had said, ‘to conjugate May ’68 with March ’78.’ That the defeat of 1978 could so quickly gain stature alongside the explosion of les évènements was a not inaccurate measure of its significance. But the road travelled by the French Left winds back much further than that. As the Left entered the 1980s it was still deeply marked by the great schism of 1947–8 and by the continuing impact of the new political world inaugurated by De Gaulle in 1958. It had indeed been a long march, a story of travail, bitterness, hope — and defeat.
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A. Duhamel, ‘Le Consensus Français’, Table 8, in SOFRES, L’Opinion Française en 1977 (Paris: 1977).
P. Williams, Crisis and Compromise: Politics in the Fourth French Republic (London: 1964) Appendix VII, p. 509.
J. Julliard, ‘Les Transfuges et les Déserteurs du 10 juin’, Le Nouvel Observateur, 23–29 July 1979.
G. Walter, Histoire du Parti Communiste Français (Paris: 1948) pp. 118–23.
Public S.A. Poll, Paris-Match, 18 October 1979.
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Johnson, R.W. (1981). Conclusion: A March Without End?. In: The Long March of the French Left. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16491-2_15
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