SONN, Richard. " ’Your body is yours’: Anarchism, Birth Control, and Eugenics in Interwar France"
France.- 3rd Republic (1871-1940)birth control* bibliographieSONN, RichardJournal of the History of Sexuality Vol. 14 (October 2005) # 4.
EUGENICS IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD (1918-39) is generally associated
with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, though interest in preventing
the "unfit" from breeding also reached a peak in the United States in these
same years.’ Most French leaders, by contrast, evinced much less interest
in controlling or limiting births than in increasing the quantity of French
people.^ The Third Republic in France supported pronatalist policies,
and a host of organizations rallied to the cause of the large family. While
many of these French profamily organizations were Catholic, Radicals and
even Socialists as well as politicians on the Right were generally united
in encouraging population growth. That left the extreme Left to battle
for birth control and to advocate for demographic quality over quantity,
especially a higher quality of life for the working classes.