WebThe Republicans (French: Les Républicains, [le ʁepyblikɛ̃]; LR) is a liberal-conservative political party in France, largely inspired by the Gaullist tradition. It holds pro-European views.. The party was formed on 30 May 2015 from the renaming and refoundation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), which had been established in 2002 under the …

WebInterim President of France again, as President of the Senate. Did not stand in the 1974 election. 20 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926–2020) 27 May 1974: 21 May 1981 6 years, 359 days Independent Republicans (renamed Republican Party in 1977) (within the Union for French Democracy from 1978) 1974

WebThe Socialist Party (French: Parti socialiste [paʁti sɔsjalist], PS) is a French centre-left and social-democratic political party. It holds pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major political parties in the French Fifth Republic, along with The Republicans.It replaced the earlier French Section …

WebThe head of the government of France has been called the prime minister of France (French: Premier ministre) since 1959, when Michel Debré became the first officeholder appointed under the Fifth Republic.During earlier periods of history, the head of government of France was known by different titles. As was common in European democracies of the …

WebBy the French Revolution, the Kingdom of France had expanded to nearly the modern territorial limits. The 19th century would complete the process by the annexation of the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice (first during the First Empire, and then definitively in 1860) and some small papal (like Avignon) and foreign possessions.France's territorial …

WebThe current Constitution of France does not specify a national emblem. The unofficial coat of arms of France depicts a lictor's fasces upon branches of laurel and oak, as well as a ribbon bearing the national motto of Liberté, égalité, fraternité.This composition was created in 1905 by heraldic painter-engraver Maurice de Meyère and was first used by the French Third …

WebFearing it might spark a civil war inside France, the leftist "Popular Front" government in France did not send direct support to the Republicans. French Prime Minister Léon Blum was sympathetic to the republic, [234] fearing that the success of Nationalist forces in Spain would result in the creation of an ally state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, an alliance …

WebThis is a list of wars involving France and its predecessor states. It is an incomplete list of French and proto-French wars and battles from the foundation of Francia by Clovis I , the Merovingian king who united all the Frankish tribes and northern Gallo-Romans in the 5th century, to the current Fifth Republic .

WebFrance (French: ), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik frɑ̃sɛz]), is a transcontinental country predominantly located in Western Europe and spanning overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and …

WebRepublicans, in these two examples, tended to reject inherited elites and aristocracies, but left open two questions: whether a republic, to restrain unchecked majority rule, should have an unelected upper chamber—perhaps with members appointed as meritorious experts—and whether it should have a constitutional monarch.