5 Republics, 2 monarchies & 2 Empires in 200 years

• First Republic was ended (1803) by Napoleon’s First Empire

• Second Republic was ended (1851) by Napoleon III’s Second Empire

• Which itself was ended by the Franco Prussian War of 1870/1

• Third Republic was ended (1940) by German occupation

• Fourth Republic (1946 - 1958)