French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin
Government of France from 1870 to 1940
🗓️ 25 April 1882
The French Third Republic was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government. The French Third Republic was a parliamentary republic.
