We're there at last - the Fifth Republic began on 4th October 1958. It was essentially the result of a political crisis in Algeria, which as the time was a French colony. At the time ...

With the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic, however, new research challenges the commonly accepted version of its birth. A book on the subject, The French Civil War, 1958-1962, from the ...

Thursday marked the 60th anniversary of the fifth French Republic. For those who are wondering why France has five Republics, here's a little explainer. Almost all countries, in the course of ...

for only the second time since General Charles de Gaulle inaugurated the Fifth French Republic in 1958, opt for a president from the Socialist Party, in this case François Hollande. Sarkozy’s defeat ...