Third French Republic
February 11, 1875
After five years of monarchist hopes and republican caution, the French National Assembly passed a set of constitutional laws - by one vote on the key article - establishing the Third Republic. It was meant as a placeholder until the Bourbons could be restored. It lasted until 1940, the longest-lived French regime since 1789.
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.