Popular Front (France) - Colonial Policies of The Popular Front

Colonial Policies of The Popular Front

Further information: French colonial empires and Colonialism

The Popular Front initiated the 1936 Blum-Viollette proposal, which was supposed to grant French citizenship to a minority of Algerian Muslims. Opposed both by colons and by Messali Hadj's pro-independence party, the project was never submitted to the National Assembly's vote and ultimately abandoned.

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