Editing Georges Clemenceau (section)

==Domestic policies==
Clemenceau's final tenure as prime minister witnessed the implementation of various reforms aimed at regulating the hours of labour. A general [[eight-hour day]] law passed in April 1919 amending the French Labour Code, and in June that year, existing legislation concerning the duration of the working day in the mining industry was amended by extending the eight-hour day to all classes of workers, "whether employed underground or on the surface". Under a previous law of December 1913, the eight-hour limit had only applied to workers employed underground. In August 1919, a similar limit was introduced for all those employed in French vessels. Another law passed in 1919 (which came into operation in October 1920) prohibited employment in bakeries between the hours of 10 P.M. and 4 A.M.; this law is sometimes credited as the cause of the popularization if not the development of the [[baguette]] as a dominant form of bread in France, and the earliest written references to a "baguette" as a style of bread date from August 1920.<ref>{{cite web|last=Olver|first=Lynne|author-link=Lynne Olver|title=Food Timeline FAQs: bread|url=http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodbreads.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925071709/http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodbreads.html|archive-date=25 September 2011|access-date=17 September 2011|work=[[The Food Timeline]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58250320|title=Recueil des actes administratifs de la Préfecture du département de la Seine|last=texte|first=Seine Auteur du|date=August 1920|publisher=Préfecture du département de la Seine|location=Paris|access-date=28 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329060158/http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58250320|archive-date=29 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Le Pain Frais |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2925647.item |language=fr |work=La Figaro |location=Paris |date=4 August 1920 |access-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121130854/http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2925647.item |archive-date=21 January 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> A decree of May 1919 introduced the eight-hour day for workers on trams, railways, and in inland waterways, and a second of June 1919 extended this provision to the state railways.{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}} In April 1919, an enabling act was approved for an eight-hour day and a six-day work week, although farm workers were excluded from the act.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/questfortimeredu0000cros|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/questfortimeredu0000cros/page/131 131]|quote=france The Eight-hour Act of April 23, 1919.|title=A Quest for Time|publisher=University of California Press|access-date=24 May 2016|isbn=9780520065321|last1=Cross|first1=Gary S.|last2=Cross|first2=Distinguished Professor of Modern History Gary|date=1 January 1989}}</ref>