Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1946 – 1958

French Fourth Republic

A state of 1946 – 1958 — 12 years in Europe. It replaced Provisional Government of the French Republic. It was replaced by French Fifth Republic. The atlas records 49 things within it — wars and battles 2 · unrest and atrocity 1 · treaties 6 · people 37 · works and ideas 3. Its line of rulers holds 3 people. Its own article says it was dissolved.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
12 years
1946 – 1958
Rulers
3
the President
Most ground
12.40 million km²
in 1949
Within it
49
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: French Fourth Republic in 1949, its borders in gold among its neighbours
French Fourth Republic in 1949, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 12.40 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Provisional Government of the French Republic: 1944 – 1946French Fifth Republic: 1958 – 2026French Fourth Republic: 1946 – 1958

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

After it

How it ended, as its article says

Dissolved, 1958. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

After a series of crises culminating in the Algerian crisis of 1958, the French Fourth Republic collapsed.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

Georges Bidault · 1946 – 1946 · left office aliveVincent Auriol · 1947 – 1954 · no death date to read the end againstRené Coty · 1954 – 1959 · no death date to read the end against1946194819501952195419561958
left alive by a regular roadending not on record

3 terms are shared from [object Object].

RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Georges Bidault · from the line of French Fifth Republic1946 – 1946under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Vincent Auriol1947 – 19547 yearsending not on record
René Coty1954 – 19595 yearsending not on record

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1946 – 1959. Only 13 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 1.00, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

194619481950195219541956

11.70 million km² in 1946, 11.26 million km² in 1956; at its largest 12.35 million km² in 1951. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Flag of France
    flag, from 1853Flag of France · Public domain
  • Coat of arms of the French Republic
    coat of arms, from 1953Coat of arms of the French Republic · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1900 – 199949 rows · 2 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 41 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood12 years

    stood longer than 19% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held12,402,100 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 99% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century2.0

    had more wars on record per century than 97% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • Rulers on record3

    has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Provisional Government of the French Republic · Linked · 1944 – 1946Provisional Government of the Fr…French Fourth Republic · 1946 – 1958French Fourth RepublicFrench Fifth Republic · Linked · 1958 – 2026French Fifth Republic19401960198020002020
linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q69829 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.