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What was the political landscape like under the French Third Republic?

  • Unified

  • Sharply polarized

  • Mostly peaceful

  • Non-political

Answer

Politics under the French Third Republic were sharply polarized. On the left stood reformist France, heir to the French Revolution, and on the right stood conservative France, rooted in the peasantry, the Roman Catholic Church, and the army.
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