Long-lived parliamentary republic proclaimed after the fall of the Second Empire; built the modern French colonial empire, fought and won WWI, then collapsed in six weeks under the German invasion of 1940.
Dissolved after the fall of France in June 1940; the National Assembly voted full powers to Marshal Pétain on 10 July 1940, ending the Republic and beginning the Vichy regime.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for French Third Republic — the shape you scrub through changes in 1870 · 1905 · 1934.
Detailed narrative history of the Third Republic's final crisis and 1940 collapse, by the author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.