French Third Republic

French Republic
French Republic; République française
	1870–1940
	Banner
	Motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" (French); "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
	Anthem: "La Marseillaise";
	Fraunce in 1939 Fraunce; French pertectorates;
	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
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	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
Precedit bi	Succeedit bi
	Seicont French Empire
Vichy Fraunce
Free Fraunce
German militar admeenistration in occupied Fraunce during Warld War II
The day pairt o	Fraunce; Algerie

The French Third Republic (French: La Troisième République, sometimes written as La III^e 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.

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↑ Lebrun, Albert (July 10, 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.
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. line feed character in |quote= at poseetion 219 (help); Freemit airtin in |website= (help)
↑ "Constitutional act no. 2, defining the authority of the chief of the French state" (in Inglis). Journal Officiel de la République française. July 11, 1940.

Coordinates: 48°49′N 2°29′E / 48.817°N 2.483°E / 48.817; 2.483

[loi1-1940-07-10-1] Lebrun, Albert (July 10, 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.
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. line feed character in |quote= at poseetion 219 (help); Freemit airtin in |website= (help)

[loi2-1940-07-11-2] "Constitutional act no. 2, defining the authority of the chief of the French state" (in Inglis). Journal Officiel de la République française. July 11, 1940.

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