French Third Republic
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The French Third Republic (in French, La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) (1870-10 July 1940) was the political regime of France between the Second French Empire and the Vichy Regime. It was a republican parliamentary democracy that was created on 4 September 1870 following the collapse of the Empire of Napoleon III in the Franco-Prussian War. It survived until the invasion of France by the German Third Reich in 1940. Adolphe Thiers recognized as "le Libérateur du Territoire", and who rallied himself to the Republic in the 1870s, called republicanism in the 1870s "the form of government that divides France least." France might have agreed about being a republic, but it never fully agreed with the Third Republic. France's longest lasting régime since before the 1789 French Revolution, the Third Republic was consigned to the history books, as unloved at the end as it had been when first created seventy years earlier. But its longevity showed that it was capable of weathering many a storm.
See also
- French colonial empire
- French Presidential elections under the Third Republic
- 6 February 1934 crisis
- 16 May 1877 crisis
- Dreyfus Affair
- France in Modern Times I (1792-1920)
- France in Modern Times II (1920-today)
- The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France by William L. Shirer in 1940 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969)