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Which revolution? They had an absolute monarchy, then a limited monarchy, then a Republic, then a Directorate, then a Consulate, then an Empire, then a limited monarchy, then the Empire again for three months, then the limited monarchy again, then an absolute monarchy, then a constitutional monarchy with a King from a different family, then a second Republic, then the Empire back again, then the Third Republic, then (during WW2) a puppet Dictatorship, then a Fourth Republic, then a Fifth. Who knows if that's the end of the stoiry?

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