Politics

Union sacrée

French for "sacred union", the phrase used by President Poincaré on 4 August 1914 for the political truce in which France's parties, from Catholics to Socialists, united behind the war effort.

Mentioned in

• Chapter II Thirty-Seven Days to War §9 Belgium, Britain and the Scrap of Paper, 2–4 August
• Chapter XII The Home Fronts §1 Total War and the Rise of the State