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Third Republic (sh)




French government (1870-1940).

After the fall of the Second Empire and the suppression of the Paris Commune, the new Constitutional Laws of 1875 were adopted, establishing a regime based on parliamentary supremacy. Despite its series of short-lived governments, the Third Republic was marked by social stability (except for the Alfred Dreyfus affair), industrialization, and establishment of a professional civil service. It ended with the fall of France to the Germans in 1940. Presidents of the Third Republic included Adolphe Thiers (1871-73), Maurice de Mac-Mahon (1873-79), Jules Grevy (1879-87), Sadi Carnot (1887-94), Felix Faure (1895-99), emile Loubet (1899-1906), Armand Fallieres (1906-13), Raymond Poincare (1913-20), Alexandre Millerand (1920-24), Gaston Doumergue (1924-31), and Albert Lebrun (1932-40). Other notable leaders included Leon Blum, Georges Boulanger, Aristide Briand, Georges Clemenceau, edouard Daladier, Jules Ferry, Leon Gambetta, edouard Herriot, Jean Jaures, Pierre Laval, Philippe Petain, and Paul Reynaud.