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Gold Standard

France · Government / Popular Front Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1936

Leon Blum25 September 1936

Paris · Government / Popular Front Government

France suspends the franc's former gold parity and permits devaluation.

Names involved

Leon Blum

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