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Republic Day is the name of a holiday in several countries ... 1977 and in 1999 respectively before restoration of civil ... complete independence from France, ...
This is also the case in more recent works, with accounts of the event rarely exceeding a few lines. For example, the ninth volume of Nouvelle Histoire de la France contemporaine by Alain Plessis , published in 1979, [109] and La France du XIXe siècle by Francis Démier, published in 2000, [110] are two such works.
Emperor Maxmilian executed; Federal Republic officially restored France: 4 September 1870: Emperor Napoleon III deposed and French Third Republic proclaimed as a result of the Franco-Prussian War: Ivory Coast: Republican government instituted when French mother country became a republic Mauritania; Senegal; Brazil: 15 November 1889
The National Constituent Assembly declared a celebration for 14 July 1790 on the Champ de Mars.By way of prelude to this patriotic fête, on 20 June, the Assembly, at the urging of the popular members of the nobility, abolished all titles, armorial bearings, liveries and orders of knighthood, destroying the symbolic paraphernalia of the ancien régime.
He suggested that France be restored to her "legitimate" (i.e. pre-Napoleonic) borders and governments—a plan that, with some changes, was accepted by the major powers. France was spared large annexations and returned to its 1791 borders. The House of Bourbon, deposed by the Revolution, was restored to the throne in the person of Louis XVIII.
France invaded Switzerland and turned it into the "Helvetic Republic" (1798–1803), a French puppet state. French interference with localism and traditions was deeply resented in Switzerland, although some reforms took hold and survived in the later period of restoration .
The Second French Empire, officially the "French Empire," was an Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second and the Third Republic of France. The Second French Empire oversaw some of the most significant achievements in infrastructure and economy, and reasserted itself as the dominant ...
This vague statement is taken in France as a direct threat by the other European powers to intervene in the Revolution. September 13–14: Louis XVI formally accepts the new Constitution. September 27: The Assembly declares that all men living in France, regardless of color, are free, but preserves slavery in French colonies.