French Second Republic
Appearance
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French Republic République française | |||||||||
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1848–1852 | |||||||||
Motto: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" | |||||||||
Anthem: Le Chant des Girondins "The Song of Girondists" | |||||||||
![]() The French Republic in 1848 | |||||||||
Capital | Paris | ||||||||
Common languages | French | ||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism (official) Calvinism Lutheranism Judaism | ||||||||
Government | Unitary semi-presidential republic (1848–1851) Unitary authoritarian presidential republic (1851–1852) | ||||||||
President | |||||||||
• 1848–1852 | Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte | ||||||||
Vice President | |||||||||
• 1849–1852 | Henri Georges Boulay de la Meurthe | ||||||||
Prime Minister | |||||||||
• 1848 (first) | Jacques-Charles Dupont | ||||||||
• 1851 (last) | Léon Faucher | ||||||||
Legislature | National Assembly | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
23 February 1848 | |||||||||
27 April 1848 | |||||||||
4 November 1848 | |||||||||
2 December 1851 | |||||||||
2 December 1852 | |||||||||
Currency | French Franc | ||||||||
ISO 3166 code | FR | ||||||||
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Today part of | ![]() |
The French Second Republic was a short-lived republican government of France under President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. It lasted from the 1848 Revolution to the 1851 coup by which the president made himself Emperor Napoleon III and started the Second Empire.[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Roger D. Price (2002). Napoleon III and the Second Empire. Routledge. pp. 1834–36. ISBN 9781134734689.