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After the defeat of the [[Factions of the Great War#Tripartite Coalition|Tripartite Coalition]], the French state was jointly occupied by the [[Netherlands]], [[Rhineland]], [[Portugal]], and the [[United Kingdom]]. The states of [[Arpitania]] and [[Piedmont]] were liberated &their government's re-sortedwere reorganized under the oversight of the British, while [[Lombardy]]'s lost Alpine territories were returned.

In the closing of the [[The Great War|Great War]], Grand Marshal [[Camille Laframboise]] was murdered during the Battle of Paris. The First Auxerre Convention in early 1939 formally disestablished the French republicCommunard Republic.

All occupying powers, however, agreed to eventually unify France under a single government, and they did so in 1941, formally ending the occupation of France. However, the former occupying nations still had a huge military presence in the country until 1944. Henri Dormoy, a supporter of the Cordial League, was appointed to the presidentpresidency of France.

In the 1944 elections, Dormoy was re-affirmed as the nation's president, narrowly beating his opponent. He supported and continued the efforts of the British to curb the influence of communardism. Along with this, he restored freedom of speech in France and granted clemency to former political prisoners who were arrested during Laframboise's dictatorial regime. The ban of theon National Republicanism in France was lifted in 1946. HeDespite these efforts, Dormoy was later known in history to be a weak and indecisive leader, contributing to France's political instability during the 1940s and 1950s.

The discovery of the Cavendish scandal paved the way for the disenfranchisement of the French people towards Britain and its allies. National Republicanism grew even more popular within the population as a result. By 1948, the National Republican Party of France (French: ''Parti National Républicain de France''; PNRF) had a huge following, mostly within the younger generation in the urban centers of France. In the 1949 elections, National-Republican candidate Jean-Jacques Caillat was elected as president of France. Caillat declared himself to be a moderate National Republican, but held suspicions against Great Britain. This drew ire from Britain, and it was not long before Britain decided to intervene.

Merely months after the national republican victory in the 1949 French elections, military leader and decorated war hero Fulgence Morel has overthrown the French state in the Charenton coup d’état. Morel, a man intent on dismantling the pacific post-war status quo, accused the national republicans of rigging the election and possessing illicit ties to the Russian government. Morel’s triumph spelled the end of Russian influence in France and the beginning of a hostile, conservative policy against national republicanism. In December 1950, Great Britain formally recognized Morel's rule over France. Morel would undisputedly rule undisputed over France overfor nearly a decade, &and the legacy of his coup of the Fourth Republic would dominate the politics of the nation. In the 1950's1950s, things started to change and soon calls for democracy came to a head in the later half of the decade, Great Britain pressured Morel to step down and conduct elections in 1960. However, the elections were marred with electoral fraud, leading to the election of Morel's right-hand man, François Deveraux, as the president of France. The dictatorial political climate of France did not change after the 1960 elections, and Morel still served an important role in the government as the Minister of the Interior.