Post-Revolution Government of France

Since 1792, there have been ten changes in the way France has governed itself:

• First republic: September 1792-May 1804

• First French empire:

Napoléon I: May 1804-April 1814
Napoléon I: June 1815-July 1815

• Constitutional monarchy:

Louis XVIII: April 1814-March 1815

• Constitutional monarchy:

Louis XVIII: July 1815-September 1824
Charles X: September 1824-August 1830
Louis-Philippe I: August 1830-February 1848

• Second republic: February 1848- December 1852

• Second French empire:

Napoléon III: December 1852-September 1870

• Third republic: September 1870-June 1940

• Provisional Government of the French Republic(GPRF): June 1944-October 1946

• Fourth republic: October 1946- October 1958

• Fifth republic: October 1958-present