The Resistance dreamed of establishing a new democratic regime in France. Partisan tensions disrupted the project's ...

SINCE the constitution of the Fourth Republic took effect in January 1947, less than eight years ago, there have been 15 successive cabinets in France. Times of government crisis, that is, periods ...

France itself, in a record turnout ... and Algerian settlers who last May provided the fuel that blew up the Fourth Republic. The mandate was his own. His power was legitimate.

But the far right and left wing joined forces this month to eject Barnier from office, making him the shortest-lasting prime minister in France’s Fifth Republic ... and the fourth of 2024. – ...