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Reynaud, Paul

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Reynaud, Paul (b. 15 Oct. 1878, d. 21 Sept. 1966). Prime Minister of France 1940 A wealthy lawyer, he was a parliamentary Deputy for the National Bloc (1919–24), the Democratic Alliance (1928–40), and the Independent Radicals (1946–62). He held various ministries from 1930 onwards and distinguished himself especially as Minister of Finance 1938–40, when he engineered an economic recovery through undoing much of the social legislation of the Popular Front government. He opposed Daladier's policy of appeasement, and took over from him to become the last Prime Minister of the Third Republic in March 1940. In May he asked the President, Albert Lebrun, for the appointment of Marshal Pétain as Deputy Prime Minister. After fleeing to Bordeaux he was forced to resign on 16 June 1940. He was imprisoned by the Vichy government, tried at Riom, and spent the last years of the war in German concentration camps. In 1948 he was briefly Minister of Finance again, and in 1953–4 Deputy Prime Minister. In 1958 he chaired the constitutional committee which wrote the Constitution of the Fifth Republic. However, he became opposed to the presidential system, as well as to de Gaulle's policies on Europe and the force de frappe.

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parliamentary bloc

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parliamentary bloc [Fr.,=block], group of legislators formed to support special interests. A bloc may form because of a specific issue and dissolve when that issue has been resolved, or it may have a more permanent character, based on a more general interest. It is usually more tightly knit and aggressive than a coalition. The bloc has been a common device in legislatures made up of many parties, where it has tended to create two loose groups of "left" and "right." In nominally bipartisan legislatures, such as those of the United States, blocs are smaller groups and are usually organized to promote a specific economic or social interest or policy as, for example, the farm bloc. The late 20th cent. saw the development of bloc voting by groups of states in the General Assembly of the United Nations.

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politicization

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | © The Oxford Companion to Irish History 2007, originally published by Oxford University Press 2007. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

politicization. The growth of popular political consciousness is a complex process. It requires an awareness of political structures and issues, a perception of these as relevant to one's daily life, and (what will generally follow) a demand for participation in public affairs. These developments are often closely linked to the spread of literacy, the decline of traditional attitudes of deference towards social superiors, and other aspects of modernization.

Levels of political awareness in early modern Ireland are difficult to assess. The 17th century saw mass mobilizations of Catholics and Protestants during the Confederate War and the Williamite War. But the basis of their participation, presumably involving some combination of ethnic and religious allegiance, obedience to traditional leaders, and possibly coercion, is scantily documented and as yet unexplored. The first clear‐cut instances of purposeful popular involvement in organized political activity belong to 18th‐century urban Protestantism, to a limited extent in popular backing for the campaign against Wood's Halfpence, and more positively in support for Lucas's assault on Dublin's unrepresentative corporation.

The pace of politicization quickened in the late 18th century, as economic development raised growing numbers above the daily struggle for subsistence, created an expanding middle class whose awareness of its own economic importance was not matched by political influence, and contributed to the rise in literacy and the breakdown of traditional attitudes of localism, fatalism, and deference. The mobilization of small property owners and independent petty producers in the Volunteer movement initially depended on the backing of landlords, MPs, and other persons of consequence. In its last phase the movement had lost this elite patronage, and with it much of its political effectiveness, but mobilization had expanded to draw in a wider social circle, and to include Catholics as well as Protestants. The creation of a broadly based and assertive public opinion was confirmed by the presence throughout the 1780s and 1790s of an urban crowd ready to take to the streets in support of popular causes.

The United Irish movement was a landmark in the development of popular politics. The creation of a network of local clubs, later replaced by conspiratorial cells, and the use of the Northern Star and other publications to disseminate ideas and propaganda, revealed the new potential for mobilization. The willingness of middle‐class radical leaders to use ballads and even millenarian Prophecies, and to broaden their political programme to include some promise of social as well as political change, testified to the compromises that had nevertheless to be made if that potential was to be realized. The Catholic Committee, meanwhile, embarked on a similar, if smaller‐scale, exercise in the mobilization of popular support, notably in the elections to the Catholic Convention. These proceedings probably contributed indirectly to the third major manifestation of a new style of popular politics, the Defender movement, whose revolutionary ideology, however crude, represented a significant advance on the pragmatic, defensive protest of the Whiteboys and similar agrarian societies.

Politicization was neither uniform nor unidirectional. Support for the advanced doctrines of the United Irishmen was far stronger in eastern counties, and in particular in the hinterlands of Dublin and Belfast, than in other regions. The two decades after the Act of Union saw radicalism in abeyance and landlord influence once more dominant at elections. The survival of a tradition of popular radicalism, but also its definite limitations, are evident in the activities of the Ribbon societies. From the 1820s O'Connell's agitations for Catholic emancipation and repeal represented a new and more controlled mobilization of the masses. But O'Connellism too was stronger in the towns than in the countryside, in the commercialized and Anglicized east than in the impoverished and Gaelic west. Nor was the level of popular political involvement sustained after O'Connell's death. The quater‐century after the Famine, a period of general prosperity, saw a revival of the politics of localism, personality, and deference, as repeal and reform slipped into the background, and a reinvigorated landlord class once again assumed largely unchallenged control of county politics.

The rise of the home rule movement from 1874, and its transformation during the 1880s, can thus be seen as the last stage in a long and uneven process. The launching of the Land War in Co. Mayo dramatically announced the political awakening of the previously supine west. The general elections of 1885 and 1886 revealed a mass electorate organized through new political party machines in support of two clearly defined ideological blocs. Parliamentary representation, first among nationalists, a little later among unionists, was no longer dominated by landlords and wealthy professional men, but had passed into the hands of a more broadly based middle‐class and even lower middle‐class elite, attentive, as their predecessors had never quite had to be, to the demands of voters and constituency activists.

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Smyth, J. , The Men of No Property: Irish Radicals and Popular Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century (1992)

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