Provisional Government of the French Republic
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The Provisional Government of the French Republic was an interim government which governed France from 1944 to 1946. Following the Battle of France in 1940 the puppet state of Vichy France had been established under the rule of Philippe Pétain. However after Operation Overlord, the liberation of Paris and the fall of the Chambois pocket, the Vichy regime was dissolved. Jurisdiction was then handed over to the Provisional Government under the leadership of Charles de Gaulle and other survivors of the French Resistance. It was eventually succeeded by the Fourth French Republic in 1946 and the Fifth French Republic in 1958.
[edit] List of Chairmen of the Provisional Government of the French Republic
- Charles de Gaulle, 1944-1946
- Félix Gouin (SFIO), 1946
- Georges Bidault (MRP), 1946
- Léon Blum (SFIO), 1946-1947
