Government Maurice Thorez II (The Price of Blood and Tears)

The first government Maurice Thorez was the government of France between the 18 November 1946 to 8 March 1947.

After the promulgation of the Constitution of the Fourth Republic on 30 April 1946, and until all the organs of the latter were established, that is, until the election of Marcel Cachin the presidency of the Republic on 20 November 1946, we enter a period of transition generally attached to the Fourth Republic but where some of the provisional institutions of the Provisional Government of the French Republic subsist.

1946

 * 10 November: end of government Georges Bidault.
 * 14 November: election of the Council of Economy
 * 18 November: beginning of the first government of Maurice Thorez, president of the Council, known as "popular government", first communist government in France.
 * 20 November: election of Marcel Cachin as President of the IVth Republic until in 1958.
 * 22 November: opening of a Second Conference at Fontainebleau between the French government and the Viet Minh. De-escalation of tensions in Viet-Nam and beginning of the process of French decolonization.
 * 5 December: law on new industrial nationalisations.

1947
-WIP