# Great Depression begins to affect France (1929)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1929-great-depression-begins-to-affect-france
Location: France

Global economic contraction reached France later than some countries but produced prolonged stagnation and unemployment. Within the broader Third Republic period, The Third Republic survived war, the Commune, constitutional crises and fierce ideological conflict. It expanded mass schooling and empire, faced the Dreyfus Affair, fought World War I and entered the troubled interwar era. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Gaston Doumergue (President of the French Republic). Great Depression begins to affect France mattered because it changed material life, state capacity, economic networks or France’s ability to project power. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Great Depression begins to affect France mattered because it changed material life, state capacity, economic networks or France’s ability to project power.

Ruler at the time: [Gaston Doumergue](https://history-france.com/rulers/gaston-doumergue)

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