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The Bloc des gauches (French pronunciation: [blɔk de ɡoʃ] Left Block or Coalition of the Left) aka Bloc républicain (Republican Block) was a coalition of Republican political forces created during the French Third Republic in 1899 to contest the 1902 legislative elections. It initially supported Emile Combes’s cabinet (June 1902-January 1905) then Maurice Rouvier’s cabinet (January 1905-March 1906) and finally Maurice Rouvier’s cabinet (March 1906-October 1906).