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French Third Republic
The French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed due to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, to 1940, when France was overrun by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the German and Italian occupations of France and the Vichy France puppet government.Maurice Larkin argued that political France...
Timeline of Events
1870
9.4.1870
Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
1904
4.8.1904
The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the ''Entente cordiale''.
1934
2.6.1934
Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.