# Constitutional Laws establish Third Republic (1875)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1875-constitutional-laws-establish-third-republic
Location: France
Categories: main-event

A series of laws created durable parliamentary republican institutions. Within the broader Third Republic period, The Third Republic survived war, the Commune, constitutional crises and fierce ideological conflict. It expanded mass schooling and empire, faced the Dreyfus Affair, fought World War I and entered the troubled interwar era. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Patrice de MacMahon (President of the French Republic). Constitutional Laws establish Third Republic mattered because it changed the legal or constitutional framework within which French institutions and citizens operated. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Constitutional Laws establish Third Republic mattered because it changed the legal or constitutional framework within which French institutions and citizens operated.

Ruler at the time: [Patrice de MacMahon](https://history-france.com/rulers/patrice-de-macmahon)

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