Abstract
The political circumstances surrounding the resignation of Adolphe Thiers from the presidency of the Third Republic on May 24, 1873, are well known. It is striking, in fact, how uniformly the standard histories of the Republic delineate the actions and motives of the various political figures involved. The verdict is unanimous: Thiers deliberately violated the pact of Bordeaux-his promise to maintain strict neutrality between republicanism and royalism for the duration of France's postwar convalescence-and his Rightist opponents were therefore impelled to force his withdrawal and to install a successor.1
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