Third Republic
Proper noun
Meaning
Third Republic
Ellipsis of French Third Republic. (1870–1940) (from the end of the Second Empire until the capitulation to Nazi Germany)
Examples
After the surrender of Napoleon to the Prussians after the Battle of Sedan in September 1870, a provisional government of national defense was established, and France's Third Republic was proclaimed.
Districts called arrondissements were used in the Third Republic and under the Fifth Republic they were called circonscriptions.
France's relations with women were always turbulent, and in 1888 he began a relationship with Madame Arman de Caillavet main, who conducted a celebrated literary salon of the Third Republic ; the affair lasted until shortly before her death in 1910.
He was not only revered as a towering figure in literature, he was a statesman who shaped the Third Republic and democracy in France.
His order to fire upon unarmed protesters in 1989 was the catalyst for transition to the democratic Third Republic in 1992.
In 1885, as part of the Third Republic policy of separation of church and state, the theology faculty was officially closed.