# European Defence Community treaty signed (1952)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1952-european-defence-community-treaty-signed
Location: Paris
Categories: main-event

France proposed a supranational defense framework that its own parliament later rejected. Within the broader Occupation, Liberation & Fourth Republic period, Defeat in 1940 divided France between Vichy, occupation and resistance. Liberation restored republican government, followed by reconstruction, welfare-state building, European integration and violent decolonization under the Fourth Republic. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Vincent Auriol (President of the French Republic). European Defence Community treaty signed mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems. 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
European Defence Community treaty signed mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems.

Ruler at the time: [Vincent Auriol](https://history-france.com/rulers/vincent-auriol)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia topic lookup — European Defence Community treaty signed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=European+Defence+Community+treaty+signed&go=Go)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — European Defence Community treaty signed](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=European+Defence+Community+treaty+signed)
- [Vie-publique — French institutions and history](https://www.vie-publique.fr/)