French Third Republic facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
French Republic
République française
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 Coat of arms
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Motto: Liberté, égalité, fraternité
("Liberty, equality, fraternity") |
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Great Seal of France:
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The French Republic in 1914
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Territories and colonies of the French Republic at the end of 1939
Dark blue: Metropolitan territory Light blue: Colonies, mandates, and protectorates |
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| Capital | Paris | ||||||||||||||
| Common languages | French (official), several others | ||||||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism Calvinism Lutheranism Judaism |
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| Government | Unitary parliamentary republic | ||||||||||||||
| President | |||||||||||||||
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• 1871–1873 (first)
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Adolphe Thiers | ||||||||||||||
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• 1932–1940 (last)
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Albert Lebrun | ||||||||||||||
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• 1870–1871 (first)
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Louis Jules Trochu | ||||||||||||||
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• 1940 (last)
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Philippe Pétain | ||||||||||||||
| Legislature | Parliament | ||||||||||||||
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• Proclamation by Leon Gambetta
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4 September 1870 | ||||||||||||||
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• Vichy France established
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10 July 1940 | ||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||
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• 1870
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36,100,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Currency | French Franc | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of |  France Algeria |
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The French Third Republic (French: La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe 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.
Images for kids
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Capt. Alfred Dreyfus
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Au Bon Marché
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The first page of the bill, as brought before the Chambre des Députés in 1905
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Comparison of Africa in the years 1880 and 1913
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Marianne (left), Mother Russia (centre) and Britannia (right) personifying the Triple Entente as opposed to the Triple Alliance
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France sustained the highest number of casualties among the Entente in World War I.
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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
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French soldiers observing the Rhine at Deutsches Eck, Koblenz, during the Occupation of the Rhineland
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French Char B1 tank destroyed in 1940
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The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to Greet the Republic as a Sign of Peace, 1907 painting by Henri Rousseau
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See also
In Spanish: Tercera República francesa para niños
