1. An example of this traditional exposé is F.S. Northedge, The Troubled Giant (London, 1966).
2. S.A. Schuker, The End of French Predominance in Europe: the Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan (Chapel Hill, 1976);
3. W.A. McDougall, France’s Rhineland Diplomacy, 1914–1924: The Last Bid for a Balance of Power in Europe (Princeton, 1978);
4. M. Trachtenberg, Reparation in World Politics: France and European Diplomacy 1916–1923 (New York, 1980).
5. See also C.S. Maier, Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilisation in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade after World War I (Princeton, 1975);