Directive of the Comintern

Vladimir Lenin began writing the Directive before even entering Paris to meet with Ludovic-Oscar Frossard, the President of the French People's Republic. The Directive called for the people of France to seize the means of production, for Dutch and Occitan forces to denounce their governments and become communist revolutionaries, and the overthrow of the bourgeois governments of the respective nations. Forssard, upon becoming Chairman of the Comintern, would rewrite and continue the Directive to include outlining the responsibilities of the commissars who would later serve in his government.

When the French People's Republic declared neutrality during the Great War, they were still invaded by both the Kingdom of Holland and the Kingdom of Occitania. When no major nation came to France's aid, even after Dutch forces entered Paris to use it as an operating base, President Ludovic-Oscar Frossard fled Paris to create a government-in-exile in the French countryside and organizing a resistance that fought both the Dutch and Occitan forces.

The working class of all three nations grew to be disillusioned with war, and millions of casualties mounted up on all sides with little major gains. Frossard, in his own accords in the Directive, accounted his desires for the working class of all nations to grow past imperialistic and dynastic ideologies, coming together. Many oif these desires were read as pleas, and many stated Lenin's own writings were more powerful. However, Frossard remained a prominent figure nonetheless of French liberty and resistance.