L'exubérance de l'état en France de 1914 à 1918 - article ; n°1 ; vol.3, pg 41-52

Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1984 - Volume 3 - Numéro 1 - Pages 41-52
The exuberance of the state in France from 1914 to 1918, Fabienne Bock.
During the First World War, not only were the institutions of the French republic not shaken — the power of the state grew over many areas of social and economic life. Industrial and agricultural production, foreign trade, the distribution of the labor force and industrial relations were partially managed by a host of semi-official bodies, commissions, committees or offices which proliferated in relative anarchy. Even if in the 1920s France was relieved to go back to non intervention and was proud of a degree of désétatisation, the 1914-1918 war was an ambiguous stage in the growth of the state apparatus in the twentieth century.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.