[TopQuark]

I entirely forgot about Leon Blum and stand corrected. But I must also say that I know close to nothing about him and very little about the French government of the time. Many, many thanks for your post. Is there a good (not written by some socialist loon) book you'd recommend on the subject?

[rmlew]

Not my specialty. Half of what I know about him comes from Sunday school and European History class. I don’t know any good books in English and my French is a decade out of use.