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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 and& resortedgovernment's re-sorted under the oversight of the British, while [[Lombardy]]'s lost Alpine territories were returned.

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

The four occupying powers had different objectives and motivations in their occupation of France. The Netherlands and Rhineland went on a policy of dismantling French industry and hauling the means of production back to their country, drastically stammering the industrial output in their occupation zones. The British focused on political rather than economic goals, putting in place measures to decrease the influence of ''communardism'', and propping up local administrative leaders that were aligned to the British. The Portuguese had a more passive policy, which focused on the rebuilding and reparationrepairing of France.

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 byto the president 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 freefreedom of speech in France and granted clemency to former political prisoners who were arrested during Laframboise's dictatorial regime. The ban of the National Republicanism in France was lifted in 1946. He was later known in history to be a weak and indecisive leader, contributing to France's political instability during the 1940s and 1950s.

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, has accused the national republicans of rigging the election and possessing illicit ties to the Russian government. Morel’s triumph has 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 rule undisputed over France, butover asnearly soona asdecade & the legacy of his coup of the Fourth Republic would dominate the politics of the nation. In the 1950's things started to change and soon calls for democracy came to a head in the latelater half of the 50sdecade, 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.