Rise and Fall of French Governments 1789: French Revolution overthrows the absolutist monarchy of the Ancien Regime and leads to the First Republic 1804: Napoleon takes control, ending the First Republic and the start of the First French Empire - ThreadSky

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delmario.bsky.social • 646 days ago

Rise and Fall of French Governments

1789: French Revolution overthrows the absolutist monarchy of the Ancien Regime and leads to the First Republic

1804: Napoleon takes control, ending the First Republic and the start of the First French Empire

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delmario.bsky.social•646 days ago

1814-15: The ‘restoration’ of the Bourbon monarchy specifically the brothers of former king Louis XVI created a constitutional Monarchy after the Napoleonic Wars

1830: The second French “Revolution” overthrows one monarchy (Bourbon) and replaces it with another (July)

delmario.bsky.social•646 days ago

1848: February Revolution leads to the short lived Second French Republic

1851: Napoleon III declares himself emperor of the Second French Empire after a coup

1870: The Second French Empire collapses after the Franco-Prussian war, the Third French Republic is established

delmario.bsky.social•646 days ago

1940: Nazi Germany invades overthrowing the Third Republic and installing the Vichy puppet dictatorship

1944-46: The Vichy and Nazi Germany governments fall and a provisional De Gaulle government leads to the Fourth French Republic

delmario.bsky.social•646 days ago

1958: A military coup leads to Charles De Gaulle being installed as president and a new constitution is written leading to the Fifth French Republic that still exists today (for now)

delmario.bsky.social•646 days ago

That’s 11 different forms of government, 4 different monarchies, 3 revolutions against those monarchies, 2 napoleonic empires, 3 military coups, the rise of 5 different republics, the napoleonic wars, Franco-Prussian war, world war 1 and 2 all over just 160 years.

delmario.bsky.social•646 days ago

Plus a straight line of revolutionary tradition can be drawn from the sans-culottes of the French Revolution to the 1848 revolution to the 1870s Paris commune to the French resistance to Vichy France in the 1940s and all the to the May 68’ and 2005 uprisings in French society…

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