Ruler · 1797 – 1877

Adolphe Thiers

Lived 1797 – 1877; politician, writer. President of the French Republic of France, 1871 – 1873; also in the line of Andorra. The atlas files them under French First Republic.

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Lived: 1797 – 1877; 80 years
In office: 2 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of the French Republic

France · the 6th of 34 dated reigns · 1824 – 2017

2 before

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac1848

Napoleon III1848 – 1852

Louis-Jules Trochu1870 – 1871

Adolphe Thiers1871 – 1873

Patrice de MacMahon1873 – 1879

Jules Grévy1879 – 1887

Sadi Carnot1887 – 1894

25 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1871 – 1873 · 2 years · came to it aged 74

Came to it: appointed
Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

At the age of seventy-four, he was named president of the Republic by the French National Assembly in August 1871.

Opposed by the monarchists in the French National Assembly and the left wing of the republicans, he resigned on 24 May 1873, and was replaced as president by Patrice de MacMahon.

Also in the line of Andorra (78th of 121).

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