Explaining History

French national pride and empire: 1944


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The devastating humiliation of defeat and occupation during the Second World War meant that for the new Gaullist Fourth Republic, regaining world status through empire was vital. However, the failure to stamp out independence movements in Lebanon and Syria meant that France's dreams of a new post war empire were fatally undermined.

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