[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]

[May Day celebration, Paris]

[Group in car celebrating the Popular Front victory in the recent national elections, Paris]

[Bastille Day parade float featuring the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky, who was revered by the international Communist movement and had died a few weeks earlier, Paris]

[Men in gas masks and protective suits during a civil-defense drill, Paris]

[Curb traders on the porch of the Bourse (stock exchange), Paris]