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The Fifth Republic — The regime founded in 1958, in force today
Born of the Algerian crisis and cut for de Gaulle, it outlived its founder, knew alternation, cohabitations and European construction — the most durable French republican regime after the Third. It has no end date: it is the regime under which these lines are read. (Editorial synthesis)
The Fifth Republic began on 4 October 1958. (source: Légifrance and Conseil constitutionnel)
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