Léon Blum | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-03-26

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00:01:22 1 Early life
00:01:52 2 First political experiences
00:04:13 3 The Popular Front government 1936-1940
00:06:09 3.1 Labour policies
00:08:23 3.2 Additional reforms
00:09:49 3.3 Spanish Civil War
00:11:40 3.4 Attacks on Blum
00:13:11 3.5 The second Government, 1938, and its collapse
00:15:22 4 Second World War
00:18:01 5 Post-war period
00:19:19 6 Government
00:19:28 6.1 First ministry (4 June 1936 – 22 June 1937)
00:21:31 6.2 Second ministry (13 March – 10 April 1938)
00:23:32 6.3 Third ministry (16 December 1946 – 22 January 1947)



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André Léon Blum (French: [ɑ̃dʁe leɔ̃ blum]; 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France.
As a Jew, he was heavily influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 19th century. He was a disciple of French Socialist leader Jean Jaurès and after 1914 became his successor. As Prime Minister in a Popular Front government of the left 1936-37, he provided a series of major economic reforms. Blum declared neutrality in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) to avoid the civil conflict spilling over into France itself. Once out of office in 1938, he denounced the appeasement of Germany. When Germany defeated France in 1940, he became a staunch opponent of Vichy France. Tried by Vichy on trumped-up charges, he was imprisoned in Buchenwald  concentration camp. After the war he resumed a transitional leadership role in French politics, helping to bring about the French Fourth Republic, until his death in 1950.