Second Republic
Americannoun
noun
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the republican government of France from the deposition of Louis Philippe (1848) until the Second Empire (1852)
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the period during which this form of government existed (1848–52)
Example Sentences
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The initial idea of building a museum to house the Crown’s collections arose during Spain’s anti-monarchy Second Republic between 1931 and 1939.
From Washington Times • May 22, 2023
Civil war commenced the next year, pitting Franco’s Nationalist forces against the elected moderate-liberal coalition government known as the Second Republic.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023
One of these unfamiliar collections, included in Poet in Spain, is The Tamarit Divan, written during the height of Spain’s democratic Second Republic.
From Slate • Nov. 29, 2017
The Second Republic had never been able to keep its house in order.
From Salon • Jan. 11, 2014
Wealth, after all, plays a great part in the Second Republic of Plato.
From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin
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