Third Republic

American  

noun

1. the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.

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Third Republic British  

noun

1. the governmental system established after the fall of Napoleon III in the Franco-Prussian War and lasting until the German occupation of 1940

2. the period during which this governmental system functioned (1870–1940)

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Example Sentences

Some Spaniards began to wonder if it was time for Spain’s third republic of the past 150 years.

From Seattle Times

On and offstage, her showmanship placed her in opposition to the everywoman bound by the strictures of France’s Third Republic.

From New York Times

Only in 1885 did the Third Republic seal the deal when it orchestrated the burial of Victor Hugo and laid his massive remains in the building’s crypt.

From Slate

Historians of other empires might ask whether the Edwardians were any more degenerate than the French of the Third Republic, or imperial Germans, Russians, Ottomans, Iranians and Chinese.

From New York Times

Portraits of aristocrats and heroic battle scenes, however spectacularly rendered, began to seem retrograde as the empire of Napoleon III gave way to the Third Republic, and the middle class expanded.

From New York Times