[Two woman holding girl's hands in the Luxembourg Garden, Paris]

[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]

[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]

[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]