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  1. 4 days ago · The French Revolution [a] was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, [1] while its values and institutions ...

  2. 1 day ago · An interim Provisional Government of the French Republic was quickly put into place by de Gaulle. The gouvernement provisoire de la République française, or GPRF, operated under a tripartisme alliance of communists, socialists, and democratic republicans. The GPRF governed France from 1944 to 1946, when it was replaced by the French Fourth ...

  3. 1 day ago · The head of the government of France has been called the prime minister of France (French: Premier ministre) since 1959, when Michel Debré became the first officeholder appointed under the Fifth Republic. During earlier periods of history, the head of government of France was known by different titles.

  4. May 9, 2024 · Lazare Carnot (born May 13, 1753, Nolay, Burgundy, France—died August 2, 1823, Magdeburg, Prussian Saxony [Germany]) was a French statesman, general, military engineer, and administrator in successive governments of the French Revolution. As a leading member of the Committee for General Defense and of the Committee of Public Safety (1793–94 ...

  5. May 2, 2024 · Paul Doumer (born March 22, 1857, Aurillac, Fr.—died May 6, 1932, Paris) was the 13th president of the French Third Republic whose term was cut short by an assassin’s bullet. In 1889 Doumer was elected as a Radical deputy from the Yonne département, and his reputation as a fiscal expert led to his appointment (1895) as minister of finance ...

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  6. May 9, 2024 · 1792-1804 1st Republic 1848 - 1852 2nd Republic 1870 - 1940 3rd Republic 1946 - 1958 4th Republic 1958 - present 5th Republic ... Tr. from the French. Interspersed ...

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  8. May 17, 2024 · French Revolutionary wars, title given to the hostilities between France and one or more European powers between 1792 and 1799. It thus comprises the first seven years of the period of warfare that was continued through the Napoleonic Wars until Napoleon ’s abdication in 1814, with a year of interruption under the peace of Amiens (1802–03).

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