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

[Crowd in front of political posters the day of the election run-offs that would put into power the leftist-liberal Popular Front coalition government, Saint-Denis, France]

[Man voting in the election run-offs that would put into power the leftist-liberal Popular Front coalition government, Saint-Denis, France]

[Man voting in the election run-offs that would put into power the leftist-liberal Popular Front coalition government, Saint-Denis, France]

[Workers asleep at the Renault factory on the first night of the sit-in strike, Boulogne-Billancourt, France]

[Sit-in strikers at the Lavalette Construction Company plant with a basket of sausages sent by a sympathetic local butcher, Saint-Ouen, France]

[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]