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This article uses police sources, French newspaper, and secondary works to show the obsession with antimilitarism before the war despite its rather marginal penetration of French society even on the extreme Left.
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Even though the French Left gradually accommodated to democratic politics before World War I despite its often extreme rhetoric, some of those who supported the war effort continued to question the efficacy of democracy.
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This page is a summary of: French antimilitarism before World War I: Gustave Hervé and L'Affiche Rouge of 1905, European Review of History Revue européenne d histoire, April 2012, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2012.663079.
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