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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Gaston Doumergue began his term as president of France. 1931: 13 June: Paul Doumer began his term as president of France. 1932: 10 May: Albert Lebrun began his term as president of France. 1934: 6 February: Riots by far-right leagues were repressed by the state in what was considered as a failed coup d'état, and a major political crisis of the ...
The French Second Republic lasted from 1848 to 1852, when its president, Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, was declared Emperor of the French under the regnal name of Napoleon III. He would later be overthrown during the events of the Franco-Prussian War, becoming the last monarch to rule France.
As was common in European democracies of the 1815–1958 period (the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy, the Second, Third, and Fourth Republic, as well as the Vichy regime), the head of government was called President of the Council of Ministers (Président du Conseil des ministres), generally shortened to President of the council ...