[Children playing on a street, Paris]

[Man and woman at a May Day celebration, Paris]

[Dancing in the street on the evening of Bastille Day, Paris]

Paris

[Jacques Duclos, one of the leaders of the French Communist party, addressing a rally, Paris]

[Maurice Thorez (right), head of the French Communist party, with a man who had been injured in a political demonstration, Paris]

[Employees of the Galeries Lafayette department store on the roof-top terrace during the sit-in strike, Paris]

[Miners giving the salute of the Popular Front at the Bastille Day parade, Paris]