Preface
1. France in the 1930s
2. `La Républque des Députés': Politics in the 1930s
3. The Popular Front: Legend and Legacy
4. The Road to Compiègne: Diplomacy and War, 1936-1940
5. The Occupation
6. Resistance and Liberation
7. Retribution and the New Jerusalem: The CNR Charter
8. The Constitution of the Fourth Republic
9. The Pattern of Politics, 1946-1954
10. Economic Growth and Social Change, 1947-1973
11. France Overseas, 1944-1954
12. Janus and Cassandra: The Mendès-France Ministry and What Followed, 1954-1955
13. Impasse, 1956-1958
14. `La République des Dupes'
15. `La République des Citoyens'
16. De Gaulle's Foreign Policy
17. Challenge and Response, 1968-1974
18. Reform and Recession: The Giscardian Era, 1974-1981
19. Keynesianism in One Country: The Socialist Experiment
20. The Regime on Trial: Cohabitation and Its Consequences, 1986-1988
21. Further Trials: From Rocard to Juppé, 1988-1996
22. The Cold Peace and the Shadow of Germany: International Relations 1986-1996
23. L'Avant-Fin-de-Siècle
Appendices: I Figures; II Tables; III French Governments 1939-1986; IV The Arts and the Public in the 1930s
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index