Parliamentary Seizure of Foreign Affairs and League-Centered Multilateral Repertoires in Interwar France (1929-1939)
Résumé
This article asks whether, and in what ways, the French Parliament meaningfully takes hold of foreign policy in the late interwar decade (1929-1939). Using parliamentary debates from the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, we examine the institutional and discursive forms of parliamentary involvement (commissions, ratifications, hearings, interpellations, budgetary scrutiny), and whether parliamentary talk about the League of Nations (LoN) merely names an institution or instead activates a substantive multilateral repertoire (collective security, arbitration, disarmament, treaty regimes, and the legitimacy of international law).
The study relies on a large corpus of Journal officiel debates digitized on the digital library of the national library of France (Gallica), whose OCR noise makes scale and verification central constraints. Rather than relying on topic modeling only, it combines traceable retrieval with structured representations (entities, relations, and chamber-specific graphs) to navigate the archive while keeping claims auditable through systematic return-to-source checks. The core contribution is empirical: evidence of parliamentary seizure of international affairs in both chambers (with differences in orientation), and a measurable League-centered multilateral repertoire whose structure is especially visible through high-intensity links among France, the League, and Germany.
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