French Third Republic
The French Third Republic (French: La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) is the term uised tae denote the seestem o govrenment adoptit in Fraunce frae 1870, when the Seicont French Empire collapsed, till 1940, when France's defeat bi Nazi Germany in Warld War II led tae the formation o the so-cried Vichy govrenment in Fraunce. It came tae an end on 10 Julie 1940, when the Naitional Assembly o the Third Republic unner its last Preses Albert Lebrun delegatit aw constitutional pouers[1][2] tae Marshal Philippe Pétain o the rump French State in the Zone libre ("Free Zone") in the sooth o Fraunce.
French Republic République française | |||||||||||||
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1870–1940 | |||||||||||||
Motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" (Script error: The function "name_from_code" does not exist.) "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" | |||||||||||||
![]() Fraunce in 1939
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![]() Fraunce in September 1939 Dark blue: Metropolitan territory o the Republic Licht blue: Colonies, mandates, an pertectorates o Fraunce | |||||||||||||
Caipital | Paris | ||||||||||||
Common leids | French | ||||||||||||
Releegion | Catholicism, disestablished 1905 | ||||||||||||
Govrenment | Pairlamentary republic | ||||||||||||
Preses | |||||||||||||
• 1871–1873 | Adolphe Thiers (first) | ||||||||||||
• 1932–1940 | Albert Lebrun (last) | ||||||||||||
Preses o the Cooncil o Meenisters | |||||||||||||
• 1870–1871 | Louis Jules Trochu | ||||||||||||
• 1940 | Philippe Pétain | ||||||||||||
Legislatur | Pairlament | ||||||||||||
Senate | |||||||||||||
Chamber o Deputies | |||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
• Proclamation bi Leon Gambetta | 4 September 1870 | ||||||||||||
• Vichy Fraunce established | 10 Julie 1940 | ||||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||||
• | 35565800 | ||||||||||||
Currency | French Franc | ||||||||||||
ISO 3166 code | FR | ||||||||||||
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ReferencesEedit
- ↑ Lebrun, Albert (10 Julie 1940). "Loi constitutionnelle du 10 juillet 1940" [Constitutional law of 10 July 1940]. http://mjp.univ-perp.fr (in French). Vichy.
The National Assembly gives all powers of the government of the Republic, under the authority and signature of Marshall Pétain to create and promulgate by one ore more acts a new constitution of the French State.
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L'Assemblée nationale donne tout pouvoir au gouvernement de la République, sous l'autorité et la signature du maréchal Pétain, à l'effet de promulguer par un ou plusieurs actes une nouvelle constitution de l'État français.|quote=
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(help) - ↑ "Constitutional act no. 2, defining the authority of the chief of the French state" (in Inglis). Journal Officiel de la République française. 11 Julie 1940.