Third Republic

noun

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

Third Republic

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)

Example Sentences

But the Republicans of the Third Republic, in 1885, would learn nothing and forget nothing.

From Project Gutenberg