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Popular Front (France)
The Popular Front was an alliance of the French Socialist, Radical and Communist parties, formed against fascism, which won the elections of 1936. Under Léon Blum, the first socialist prime minister, its government introduced the 40-hour week, two weeks' paid holiday and collective bargaining through the Matignon Agreements. Divided over non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War and hit by economic difficulties, it broke up by 1938.
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