French Third Republic

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The French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870 to 1940, marked by parliamentary dominance, frequent changes of government, and the Dreyfus Affair, and ending with the German invasion in World War II.

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instanceOf former sovereign state
historical period
republic
alliedWith Russian Empire during World War I
United Kingdom during World War I
United States during World War I
capital Paris
characteristic frequent changes of government
strong role of political parties
weak executive power
colonialPolicy expansion of French colonial empire in Africa and Asia
constitutionalLawAdopted Constitutional Laws of 1875
constitutionalSystem parliamentary supremacy
continent Europe
country France
currency French franc
demographicCharacteristic universal male suffrage
dissolved 1940
educationPolicy secular public education reforms
enactedLaw French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State of 1905
surface form: 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State
endDate 10 July 1940
endedBy Battle of France
surface form: German invasion of France in World War II
established 1870
flag French tricolour
surface form: Flag of France
governmentForm parliamentary republic
headOfGovernmentTitle President of the Council of Ministers
headOfStateTitle President of the French Republic
historicalReputation longest-lasting French republic before the Fifth Republic
keyIssue church–state separation
legislativeBody Chamber of Deputies
Senate of France
legislature Parliament of France
surface form: French Parliament
majorPoliticalCrisis Dreyfus affair
majorPoliticalCrisisEnd 1906
majorPoliticalCrisisStart 1894
nationalMotto Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
notableEducationReformer Jules Ferry
notablePresident Adolphe Thiers
Albert Lebrun
Armand Fallières
Félix Faure
Jules Grévy
Patrice de MacMahon
Raymond Poincaré
Émile Loubet
notablePrimeMinister Georges Clemenceau
Jules Ferry
Léon Gambetta
Édouard Daladier
officialLanguage French
participatedIn Franco-Prussian War
World War I
interwar period diplomacy
politicalOrientation anticlericalism
republicanism
precededBy Second Empire of France
surface form: Second French Empire
predecessorEvent Franco-Prussian War
collapse of the Second French Empire
signedTreaty Treaty of Versailles
startDate 4 September 1870
stateIdeology laïcité
succeededBy French State (Vichy regime)
Vichy
surface form: Vichy France
territorialStatus metropolitan France and colonial empire
womenSuffrageStatus women did not have the right to vote in national elections

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Gaston Doumergue era French Third Republic
René Viviani headOfGovernmentOf French Third Republic
Paul Painlevé participatedIn French Third Republic
this entity surface form: French Third Republic politics
Charles Floquet partOf French Third Republic
Charles Floquet hasCitizenshipDuring French Third Republic
Nivelle Offensive belligerent French Third Republic
Henry Boucher operatedInPoliticalPeriod French Third Republic
subject surface form: Democratic Republican Alliance
Triomphe de la République commissionedBy French Third Republic
Triomphe de la République era French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
statue "Le Triomphe de la République" on Place de la Nation movement French Third Republic
subject surface form: Le Triomphe de la République
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
Ubangi-Shari metropole French Third Republic
Pierre-Étienne Flandin partOf French Third Republic
French Radical-Socialist movement locatedIn French Third Republic
French Radical-Socialist movement historicalContext French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
King Béhanzin opponent French Third Republic
Adamawa Emirate colonialEncounterWith French Third Republic
L’Aurore (newspaper) associatedWith French Third Republic
Camille Chautemps era French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
Bloody Week perpetrator French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Versailles government
French Realist movement associatedWith French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
L’Artiste historicalPeriod French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third Republic
Dahomey Amazons opponent French Third Republic
Second Franco-Dahomean War belligerent French Third Republic
Mino opponent French Third Republic
Le Voltaire timePeriod French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
Le Figaro significantPeriod French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
Decoration of the Panthéon, Paris associatedWith French Third Republic
École romane historicalPeriod French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
Marcel Bloch countryOfCitizenship French Third Republic
Marcel Bloch birthPlace French Third Republic
Prince Georgy Lvov placeOfDeath French Third Republic
Le Gaulois coveredPeriod French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
Action Française opposedTo French Third Republic
Enquête sur la monarchie historicalContext French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
Action Française (newspaper) opposedTo French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
Henri Brisson movement French Third Republic
Henri Brisson era French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
French Army Group usedBy French Third Republic
Duc de Magenta titleHolderPoliticalRegime French Third Republic
Suppression of the Paris Commune perpetrator French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Versailles government
Seize Mai crisis partOf French Third Republic
Élisabeth de MacMahon associatedWith French Third Republic
French Minister of War existedInFormOf French Third Republic
Une erreur judiciaire: La vérité sur l’affaire Dreyfus about French Third Republic
this entity surface form: Third French Republic
Le Fumier de Job hasCulturalContext French Third Republic
Dalip Singh deathPlace French Third Republic