Chapter 1 French Diplomacy in the War of 1914–18; Chapter 2 The Peace Settlement; Chapter 3 From Versailles to the Ruhr; Chapter 4 The Occupation of the Ruhr, and the Dawes Plan; Chapter 5 The Early Days of the Cartel des Gauches; Chapter 6 The Briand Era; Chapter 7 The Problem of National Defence after the Evacuation of the Rhineland; Chapter 8 The World Economic Crisis and its Repercussions on the Foreign Policy of France; Chapter 9 The Disarmament Conference and the Rearming of Germany; Chapter 10 The Franco-Italian Rapprochement and the Attempt to Consolidate Central Europe; Chapter 11 The Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance; Chapter 12 The Abyssinia Conflict and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland; Chapter 13 The Foreign Policy of the Popular Front; Chapter 14 Munich; Chapter 15 The Beginning of the War; Chapter 16 Woe to the Vanquished;
J. NÉrÉ Professeur, Faculte des Lettres et Sciences Huntaines de Brest.