French Fourth Republic
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Oct 29, 2026
Louis SarkozyGUEST
And then you have this total chaos throughout the 19th century, which leads us to the 20th, where after the humiliation of World War II, De Gaulle briefly holds power, but then he is also chased out by the parliamentarians.
Louis SarkozyGUEST
The Fourth Republic is created and we have to wait the Algerian crisis and the very real threat that the French Foreign Legion almost parachuted on Paris to grab power for themselves in 1958 for him to instill the Fifth Republic.
Louis SarkozyGUEST
and finally give us something like 50 years of stability.
Louis SarkozyGUEST
And the golf system can be lauded in that it lasted for so long.
Jeff PratherHOST
By the way, I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jeff PratherHOST
So then the Fourth Republic was 1946 to 1958, established after World War II with the parliamentary system, ended due to political instability and the Algerian crisis.
Jeff PratherHOST
The Algerian crisis, now we're getting into Islamification and Muslim revolts.
Jeff PratherHOST
Fifth Republic, 1958 to present, the current system established by the Constitution of 1958 to strengthen the executive presidency and stabilize the government.
Richard VinenGUEST
But of course, in practice, it is a party.
Richard VinenGUEST
And it's a party that then campaigns against what has become the Fourth Republic Constitution.
Richard VinenGUEST
de Gaulle wants to overthrow that.
Richard VinenGUEST
He wants to introduce a stronger executive head, a strong presidency.
Richard VinenGUEST
On the contrary, all his emissaries are maneuvering to get him back into power as soon as they realize there's a chance of it with de Gaulle's tacit help and support.
Richard VinenGUEST
So what happens is that there's a rebellion against French presence in Algeria.
Richard VinenGUEST
It starts in 1954. which destabilizes the Fourth Republic.
Richard VinenGUEST
And particularly the army comes to feel that the French government is not sufficiently firm in defending French Algeria.
Richard VinenGUEST
But of course, in practice, it is a party.
Richard VinenGUEST
And it's a party that then campaigns against what has become the Fourth Republic Constitution.
Richard VinenGUEST
de Gaulle wants to overthrow that.
Richard VinenGUEST
He wants to introduce a stronger executive head, a strong presidency.
Richard VinenGUEST
On the contrary, all his emissaries are maneuvering to get him back into power as soon as they realize there's a chance of it with de Gaulle's tacit help and support.
Richard VinenGUEST
So what happens is that there's a rebellion against French presence in Algeria.
Richard VinenGUEST
It starts in 1954. which destabilizes the Fourth Republic.
Richard VinenGUEST
And particularly the army comes to feel that the French government is not sufficiently firm in defending French Algeria.
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The political fallout has been staggering.
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Since Macron dissolved parliament in June 2024, France has burned through prime ministers at a pace not seen since the chaotic Fourth Republic of the 1950s.
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Michel Barnier lasted 90 days before a no-confidence vote brought him down, the first successful no-confidence vote since 1962.
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His successor, Francois Bayrou, was ousted after nine months when Parliament rejected his austerity budget.
Newt GingrichGUEST
We spent three days touring the battlefield, and we spent the nights with a friend of his, who had been drafted in 1941, sent to the Philippines, served on the Bataan Death March, and spent three and a half years in the Japanese prison camp.
Newt GingrichGUEST
And the experience of the scale of death and his stories of defeat followed a couple of weeks later by the French paratroopers coming back from Algeria, killing the French Fourth Republic, bringing De Gaulle back to set up the Fifth Republic, which still exists.
Newt GingrichGUEST
Then we were transferred to Stuttgart, the 7th Army Headquarters.
Newt GingrichGUEST
We arrived the week of the first Berlin crisis and the US Army going ashore in Lebanon with nuclear weapons offshore.
Newt GingrichGUEST
We spent three days touring the battlefield, and we spent the nights with a friend of his who had been drafted in 1941. sent to the Philippines, served on the Baton Death March, and spent three and a half years in a Japanese prison camp.
Newt GingrichGUEST
And the experience of the scale of death and his stories of defeat followed a couple weeks later by the French paratroopers coming back from Algeria, killing the French Fourth Republic, bringing De Gaulle back to set up the Fifth Republic, which still exists.
Newt GingrichGUEST
And then we were transferred to Stuttgart, the Seventh Army headquarters, and we arrived the week of the first Berlin crisis and the U.S. Army going ashore in Lebanon with nuclear weapons offshore.
Newt GingrichGUEST
All of that sort of came together.
Alan AverillHOST
It ended with Algerian independence.
Alan AverillHOST
And it caused the collapse of France's Fourth Republic and resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Alan AverillHOST
Come on, brain, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Alan AverillHOST
Because, of course, France had colonies in North Africa.
Iain DaleHOST
But you take it forward.
Iain DaleHOST
Essentially, the Fourth Republic fell, didn't it? Because of protests in 1968.
Iain DaleHOST
Was it the fourth? Yes, it was, wasn't it? He says now doubting himself.
Iain DaleHOST
We're in the fifth now, aren't we? Are we in the fifth
Joanna FlannaganGUEST
I was completely wrong.
Joanna FlannaganGUEST
Um, and then the Fourth Republic started in '46.
Joanna FlannaganGUEST
So that is actually quite new in what they consider.
Joanna FlannaganGUEST
Like, they're like, "No, this is our like newer government.
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