It consisted of a Chamber of Deputies and a Senate to form the legislative branch of government and a president to serve as head of state. Origins and formation · Social history · Church and state

A patchwork compromise, it established a two-house legislature (with an indirectly elected Senate as a conservative check on the Chamber of Deputies).

The Third Republic was proclaimed in France on 4 September 1870 after the defeat at Sedan, but it struggled to win universal acceptance.

17 сент. 2024 г. · Third Republic, French government from 1870 to 1940. After the fall of the Second Empire and the suppression of the Paris Commune, the new Constitutional Laws ...

The present selection mode of the Senate dates back to the start of the Third Republic, when it was turned into what Léon Gambetta famously called a "grand ... French Senate elections · 2023 French Senate election · Senate Republicans

The Senate is composed of 300 members who must be French citizens at least forty years of age. They are elected by the scrutin de lisle for a period of nine ...

Search amongst all the former senators of the Fifth Republic (since 1958), of the Fourth Republic (1946-1958) and the Third Republic (1875-1940). (WEBP ...

299,95 $ Volume One examines the place of the Senate in the Third Republic, from its uncertain beginnings to its presence at the forefront of political life in the 1930s ...

The chamber of deputies, which ruled France in this way, consisted of 533 members, rising to 602 by 1914. It was a relatively small body, compared with the ...

Today the French deputies and senators met separately and passed this resolution - the Chamber by 335 votes to three and the Senate by 225 votes to one.