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French government (1870 – 1940). After the fall of the Second Empire and the suppression of the Paris Commune, the new Constitutional Laws of 1875 were adopted, establishing a regime based on parliamentary supremacy. Despite its series of short-lived governments, the Third Republic was marked by social stability (except for the Alfred Dreyfus affair), industrialization, and establishment of a professional civil service. It ended with the fall of France to the Germans in 1940. Presidents of the Third Republic included Adolphe Thiers (1871 – 73), Patrice de Mac-Mahon (1873 – 79), Jules Grévy (1879 – 87), Sadi Carnot (1887 – 94), Félix Faure (1895 – 99), Émile Loubet (1899 – 1906), Armand Fallières (1906 – 13), Raymond Poincaré (1913 – 20), Alexandre Millerand (1920 – 24), Gaston Doumergue (1924 – 31), and Albert Lebrun (1932 – 40). Other notable leaders included Léon Blum, Georges Boulanger, Aristide Briand, Georges Clemenceau, Édouard Daladier, Jules Ferry, Léon Gambetta, Édouard Herriot, Jean Jaurès, Pierre Laval, Philippe Pétain, and Paul Reynaud.

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