French Third Republic Facts for Kids

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French Republic

République française

1870–1940

Flag

Coat of arms

Motto: Liberté, égalité, fraternité
("Liberty, equality, fraternity")

Anthem: La Marseillaise
("The Marseillaise")

Great Seal of France:

The French Republic in 1914

France
French protectorates

Territories and colonies of the French Republic at the end of 1939
Dark blue: Metropolitan territory
Light blue: Colonies, mandates, and protectorates

Capital

Paris

Common languages

French (official), several others

Religion

Roman Catholicism
Calvinism
Lutheranism
Judaism

Government

Unitary parliamentary republic

President

• 1871–1873 (first)

Adolphe Thiers

• 1932–1940 (last)

Albert Lebrun

President of the Council of Ministers

• 1870–1871 (first)

• 1940 (last)

Legislature

• Upper house

• Lower house

Chamber of Deputies

History

• Proclamation by Leon Gambetta

4 September 1870

• Vichy France established

10 July 1940

Population

• 1870

36,100,000

Currency

French Franc

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Second French Empire

Vichy France
Free France
German military administration
Italian military administration

Today part of

France

Algeria

The French Third Republic (French: La Troisième République, sometimes written as La III^e République) was the system of government created in France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940 after France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the creation of the Vichy government in France.

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Capt. Alfred Dreyfus
Au Bon Marché
The first page of the bill, as brought before the Chambre des Députés in 1905
Comparison of Africa in the years 1880 and 1913
Marianne (left), Mother Russia (centre) and Britannia (right) personifying the Triple Entente as opposed to the Triple Alliance
France sustained the highest number of casualties among the Entente in World War I.
The Council of Four in Versailles, 1919: David Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France and Woodrow Wilson of the United States
French soldiers observing the Rhine at Deutsches Eck, Koblenz, during the Occupation of the Rhineland
French Char B1 tank destroyed in 1940
The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to Greet the Republic as a Sign of Peace, 1907 painting by Henri Rousseau

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