Midstream, January 1st, 2002
In France, during the last decades of the 19th century, antagonisms that had been smoldering for some time below the surface suddenly erupted most violently. A series of events divided the country into warring camps, pitching republicans against monarchists, clericalists against secularists, militarists against pacifists, and radicals against reactionaries. Monarchists had suffered by the abolition of the throne in 1871 and the creation of the Third Republic; clericalists feared a diminution of power at the hands of the republican government; militarists still smarted from the humiliating def...
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