FRANCE Religious Medal Leon XIII Christian Holy Heart of Jesus Glory Love (28)

FRANCE

THIRD REPUBLIC Religious medal

Leon XIII

Christian Holy Heart of Jesus glory love &
reparation  Medal

 Obverse
legend: ARCHICONFRERY OF THE HONOR GUARD OF THE SACRE HEART.

Obverse description: Christ attached to the post, surrounded by two apostles
with his mother crying at his feet.

Reverse legend: GLORY LOVE REPAIR IN THE
HEART OF JESUS.

Reverse description: Heart pierced by an arrow.

7.7g; 27.2mm

THIRD REPUBLIC

(1870-1940)

The news of the capitulation of Sedan provoked the revolution of September 4,
1870 in Paris. Proclaimed at City Hall, the Republic has a provisional
government called the Government of National Defense. Threatened on the left by
the insurrection of the Commune and on the right by the monarchists, the new
regime had a difficult start. Initially head of the executive power (February
1871), Thiers was responsible for reorganizing the country before choosing its
form of government. He became President of the Republic in August 1871 and,
despite his action to liberate the territory, had to leave his post in March
1873 in the face of royalist opposition. He was then replaced by Mac-Mahon in
favor of the restoration of the monarchy but it was not restored following the
flag question. The seven-year law was then put in place in November 1873 and
then, in 1875, the fundamental laws which served as the Constitution of the
Third Republic were passed. Parliamentary system, it is characterized in
particular by the clear preponderance of the legislative power over the
executive power. Anticlerical, the Third Republic made school free, secular and
compulsory but continued colonial policy for its economic, strategic and moral
ambitions. The separation of Church and State was voted in 1905. The idea of
​​revenge on Germany and significant nationalism were at the heart of the
Boulangist crisis, the Panama scandal and the Dreyfus affair of 1886. -1899
while foreign policy is very active, particularly in Morocco, and the arms race
is developing. The First World War was costly for France, which only recovered
from 1920 or even 1928 for currency with the "Poincaré" franc. The crisis of
1929 was not felt until 1932 but lasted until 1939, a period during which
ministerial instability was very significant. Vacillating in 1934, the Third
Republic found a new unitary cement with anti-fascism which allowed the Popular
Front to come to power in 1936. But, paralyzed in the face of Germany, France
then got bogged down in a "funny situation". war" then experienced one of the
greatest defeats in its history in June 1940. Meeting in the National Assembly
in Vichy on July 10, 1940, the Chambers, although elected in 1936, voted full
powers to Pétain in a sort of collective suicide by 569 votes for, 80 votes
against and 18 abstentions