# Treaty of Versailles signed (1919)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1919-treaty-of-versailles-signed
Location: Versailles
Categories: main-event

France helped shape the peace settlement and recovered Alsace-Lorraine. 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 Raymond Poincaré (President of the French Republic). Treaty of Versailles signed mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems. 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
Treaty of Versailles signed mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems.

Ruler at the time: [Raymond Poincaré](https://history-france.com/rulers/raymond-poincare)

## Sources
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