Republics - 4th and 5th (France)

Promised to the people from the war onwards, the dawn of the Fourth Republic was definitively achieved by the referendum of the 21 October 1945, which proclaimed the assembly elected that day as constitutional. After rejection of the first text, the constitution of the 4th Republic was finally adopted – by a hair’s breadth – by referendum on the 13th of October 1946. It governed France until 1958. That year the National Assembly gave General de Gaulle, last President de Conseil (Prime Minister) of the Fourth Republic who was invested on the 1st of June, the right to elaborate a new constitution, approved by referendum on the 28th of September. To this day, France lives under the regime of the Fifth Republic.