# Treaties of Rome signed (1957)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1957-treaties-of-rome-signed
Location: Rome
Categories: main-event

France became a founding member of the European Economic Community and Euratom. Within the broader Occupation, Liberation & Fourth Republic period, Defeat in 1940 divided France between Vichy, occupation and resistance. Liberation restored republican government, followed by reconstruction, welfare-state building, European integration and violent decolonization under the Fourth Republic. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is René Coty (President of the French Republic). Treaties of Rome 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
Treaties of Rome signed mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems.

Ruler at the time: [René Coty](https://history-france.com/rulers/rene-coty)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia topic lookup — Treaties of Rome signed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Treaties+of+Rome+signed&go=Go)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Treaties of Rome signed](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Treaties+of+Rome+signed)
- [Vie-publique — French institutions and history](https://www.vie-publique.fr/)