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| | Third French Republic |
 | | The French Third Republic, sometimes written as the IIIrd Republic (1870-1940), was the governing body of France between the Second Empire and the Fourth Republic. |
 | | By the late 1870s, with public opinion swinging heavily in favour of a republic, the President of the Republic, Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, himself a monarchist, made one last desparate attempt to salvage the monarchical cause by dismissing the republic-orientated prime minister and appointing a monarchist duke to office. |
 | | France's longest lasting regimé since before the 1789 revolution, the Third Republic, was confined to the history books, as unloved at the end as it had been when first created seventy years earlier. |
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