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 | | Despite its series of short-lived governments, the Third Republic was marked by social stability (except for the Alfred Dreyfus affair), industrialization, and establishment of a professional civil service. |
 | | Presidents of the Third Republic included Adolphe Thiers (187173), Maurice de Mac-Mahon (187379), Jules Grévy (187987), Sadi Carnot (188794), Félix Faure (189599), Émile Loubet (18991906), Armand Fallières (190613), Raymond Poincaré (191320), Alexandre Millerand (192024), Gaston Doumergue (192431), and Albert Lebrun (193240). |
 | | The Dominican Republic's shores are washed by the Caribbean to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the north. |
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