French Fourth Republic
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The French Fourth Republic was the system of government that ruled France from 1946 to 1958, following World War II. It matters because it was a period of political instability that eventually led to its replacement by the Fifth Republic in 1958, which established the strong presidential system that France still uses today.
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The French Fourth Republic (French: Quatrième république française) was the republican government of France from 27 October 1946 to 4 October 1958, governed by the fourth republican constitution of 13 October 1946. Essentially a reestablishment and continuation of the French Third Republic which governed from 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War to 1940 during World War II, it suffered many of the same problems which led to its end. The French Fourth Republic was a parliamentary republic.
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