Sending soldiers to Ukraine: how France sometimes entered the war without really wanting to. The concern aroused by Emmanuel Macron's comments on sending a contingent of Western soldiers is easily understood in the light of History.
In 1914, on July 29, neither the President of the Council, René Viviani, nor the President. of the Republic, Raymond Poincaré "believed in war," according to the testimony of Abel Ferry, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. A month had passed since the assassination of the Archduke of Austria in Sarajevo. Six days since Austria's ultimatum to Serbia.