| First Republic (1782–1804) | Outcome of the French Revolution. |
| Second Republic (1848–1852) | The interregnum between the fall of Louis-Philippe and the Second Empire. |
| Third Republic (1870–1940) | The fall of Napoleon III until the French surrender during World War II. |
| Fourth Republic (1946–1958) | Unstable period featuring twenty-six governments finally undermined by instability in Algeria. |
| Fifth Republic (1958–) | De Gaulle’s presidency to the present. |