France’s Third Republic
Secular parliamentary republic
France’s Third Republic leans hardest toward Central, Secular and Assimilationist.
The 12 axes, with receipts
The centralised republic of Paris and its prefects.
A parliamentary republic with frequent changes of government.
The 1881 law established press freedom.
Founding member of the League of Nations with a colonial empire.
Conscription and colonial wars.
Schools stamped out regional languages in the name of the Republic.
Property-owning republic of small farmers and shopkeepers.
Largely liberal economic policy.
The Méline tariff protected French farmers.
Separated church and state in 1905.
A 1920 law punished abortion and contraception.
The age of the Eiffel Tower and Pasteur.
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