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
Acts were passed for the utter extirpation of the system during the reign of Louis Philippe, and again in the time of the Second Republic.
From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by Ridpath, John Clark
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