what were the past styles of government in France?
2007-01-09 03:55:02 · 2 answers · asked by johnnyg 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Merovingian kingdom, 511- ~750, Clovis (Louis I) king of the Franks
Carolingian kingdom, ~750- ~978, Pepin the Short, Charlemagne
Capetian kingdom, ~978-1789, Hugh Capet, Louis XVI
First Republic, 1789-1795, Committee of Public Safety
Consulate, 1795-1804, Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul.
First Empire, 1804-1815, Napoleon as Emperor
Restoration, 1815-1830, Louis XVIII, Charles X
Parliamentary monarchy,1830-1848, Louis Phillipe
Second Republic, 1848-1852, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as president.
Second Empire, 1852-1870, Louis Napoleon III as emperor
Third Republic, 1870-1940
Vichy, 1940-1945, supposedly republican government of a rump dependent state not annexed to Germany
Fourth Republic, 1945-1957
Fifth Republic, 1957-, Charles de Gaulle
2007-01-09 05:14:45 · answer #1 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You name it and France has probably done it. They were a series of tribal states, a Roman Colony, a medieval monarchy, an absolutist monarchy a constitutional monarchy, a dictatorship, an indistinctly governed revolutionist state, a constitutional republic and an occupied country, there probably more.
2007-01-09 12:04:39 · answer #2 · answered by Huey from Ohio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋