| French Republic République française | |||||
| Unrecognized state | |||||
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 Flag | |||||
| Motto Liberté, égalité, fraternité ("Liberty, equality, fraternity") | |||||
| Anthem La Marseillaise ("The Marseillaise") | |||||
 Dark Green denotes territories held by the Republic at its height
Light Green denotes territories claimed by the Republic | |||||
| Capital | Bordeaux | ||||
| Largest city | Paris | ||||
| Languages | French (official), several others | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
| Government | Unitary provisional parliamentary republic | ||||
| President | |||||
| - | 1907-1908 | Georges Clemenceau | |||
| - | 1908 | Paul Painlevé | |||
| Prime Minister | Aristide Briand | ||||
| History | |||||
| - | Proclamation by Georges Clemenceau | 4 August 1907 | |||
| - | Disestablished | 14 November 1908 | |||
| Currency | French Franc | ||||
The French Third Republic (French: Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was a short lived unrecognized French successor from 4 August 1907, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the French Civil War, until 14 November 1908, when it would collapse wand be conquered by other forces.
Proclamation[]
The First World War resulted in the defeat of France and the overthrow of Emperor Napoleon IV and his Second French Empire. After Napoleon's overthrow by the Communists, Parisian deputies led by Léon Gambetta established the Government of National Defence as a provisional government on 4 August 1907. The deputies then selected General Louis-Jules Trochu to serve as its president. This first government of the Third Republic ruled during the Siege of Paris. As Paris was cut off from the rest of unoccupied France, the Minister of War Georges Clementau, who succeeded in leaving Paris in a hot air balloon, established the headquarters of the provisional republican government in the city of Bordeaux.
After the French surrender in mid 1907 the provisional Government of National Defence disbanded, and national elections were called with the aim of creating a new French government. French territories occupied by Germany at this time did not participate. The resulting conservative National Assembly elected Georges Clementau as head of a provisional government. Due to the revolutionary and left-wing political climate that prevailed in the Parisian population, the right-wing government choose Bordeaux as its capital.
History[]
Dissolution[]
After failing to win any major battles, being pushed back to Bay of Biscay and Bordeaux, many generals began to leave their side, it didn't help that Georges Clemenceau, had also resigned on the 10 of November. But by then many began to leave flee to other parties, like communists, nationalists, loyalists to Napoleon, republicans, Orléanists and Legitimists. And by the 14, it had no support left and was dissolved.
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