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The vice presidency was established at the start of the Second Republic by the Constitution of 4 November 1848, specifically its articles 45, 70 and 71. [1] It was broadly inspired by the vice president of the United States, as were some other features of the new constitution, which created France’s closest experiment towards a presidential system, with the introduction of a president, an ...
The Second French Empire, [a] officially the French Empire, [b] was the government of France from 1852 to 1870. It was established on 2 December 1852 by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, president of France under the French Second Republic, who proclaimed himself Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
This article lists Presidents of the French Parliament or, as the case may be, of its lower chamber. The National Constituent Assembly was created in 1789 out of the Estates-General . It, and the revolutionary legislative assemblies that followed – the Legislative Assembly (1791–1792) and the National Convention (1792–1795), had a quickly ...
Elected first President of the French Republic in the 1848 election against Louis-Eugène Cavaignac. He provoked the coup of 1851 and proclaimed himself Emperor in 1852. Henri Georges Boulay de la Meurthe, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte's vice president, was the sole person to hold that office.
Revolutionary France 1770–1880 (1995), pp 385–437. survey of political history by leading scholar; Guyver, Christopher, The Second French Republic 1848–1852: A Political Reinterpretation, New York: Palgrave, 2016; Price, Roger, ed. Revolution and reaction: 1848 and the Second French Republic (Taylor & Francis, 1975). Price, Roger.
He was born in Nancy, France in 1797. A staunch Republican and Bonapartist, he was elected to the Provisional Assembly in 1848, and was elected to the newly-established office of vice president on 20 January 1849. He served until 29 March 1852, when the office was omitted in the new Constitution proclaimed in the aftermath of Louis-Napoleon ...
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Interim President of France, as President of the Senate. Stood in the 1969 election but was defeated in the second round by Georges Pompidou. 19 Georges Pompidou [128] (1911–1974) 20 June 1969 2 April 1974 † 4 years, 286 days Union of Democrats for the Republic: 1969: Prime Minister under Charles de Gaulle, 1962–1968.