Riots of February 6, 1934: why it was not a fascist coup attempt. 19 dead (including 18 rioters, demonstrators and onlookers, killed by the police) as well as 2,500 injured, some of them seriously (330 hospitalized).
The country is in shock, the emotion gigantic. Neither side doubts that it represents justice, while the nightmare of civil war obsesses minds. In 1933, France was doing very badly and the French were afraid. The global crisis following the Wall Street crash reached the country in the fall of 1931. Unemployment…