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5 unusual facts about French Fourth Republic


French Fourth Republic

The ECSC was superseded, on 25 March 1957, by the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community (which would, in 1993, become the European Union through the Treaty of Maastricht).

The creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was first proposed by French foreign minister Robert Schuman and French economic theorist Jean Monnet on 9 May 1950 as a way to prevent further war between France and Germany.

Gaullist Party

However, it was divided about the way forward for political institutions and the constitution for the Fourth Republic.

He accused the Fourth Republic of being dominated by the "parliamentary fiddles" and to organize the state helplessness.

National Centre of Independents and Peasants

As the leading right-wing during the Fourth Republic, it won around 14% of the vote in 1951 and 1956 and participated in Third Force government coalitions, taking a major role in governments at the beginning of the 1950s.


Colombey-les-Deux-Églises

De Gaulle withdrew repeatedly to Colombey when his political fortunes waned, first on the establishment of the Fourth Republic in 1946, and then between 1953 and 1958, before he became President again at the height of the Algerian Crisis.

Mouvement démocratique de la rénovation malgache

At the first post-war constituent assembly convened in Paris in November 1945 to draft the constitution of the French Fourth Republic, Madagascar was represented by two doctors named Joseph Raseta and Joseph Ravoahangy.


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