How is France on its Fifth Republic? (Short Animated Documentary)

The word 'coup d'etat' directly coming from French should give some idea.

A man goes into the British library and asks the librarian, 'where can I find a copy of the French constitution?' The librarian replies, 'I'm sorry sir, we don't stock periodicals.'

Charles de Gaulle: if i had one dollar for every time I create a new french republic, I’d have two dollars, which isn’t much, but it’s weird it happened twice.

De Gaulle, one of the few guys to whom you can hand over absolute power to, only for him to make a new republic in the mean time instead of keeping the power.

The first four Republics didn’t have the financial backing of James Bissonette

"What about a republic?" "We already had it." "We've had four, yes, but what about the fifth republic?"

"Why five republics ?" : because we couldn't choose between giving more power to the Assemblée Nationale, or to the President, so we needed five tries to be sure.

Seeing "Le Constitution" makes me want to rip my eyes out.

Time traveler: "I come from the future." French: "Oh good, are we still a republic." Time traveler: "Yes, the 12th republic had just been established French:" The what?"

Five republics, three kingdoms, two empires, and one quasi-fascist state in just over 220 years. Wow.

Government: raise any amount of taxes French People: So you have chosen death?

The revolutions are like the crusades. The first one went so well that there's always a temptation to try it again, even though you know you'll probably regret it

"The First French Republic, the one with all the guillotining, AKA the fun one." A man of the People, I see.

“The fun one” ah yes Robespierre had a lot of fun until it was his turn

*Slaps roof of france*:this bad boy can fit so many revolution in a span of a century

For those keeping score, the "ancien regime" of France lasted for, at least, 805 years from 987 to 1792. Since 1792, France has had five republics, two empires, two kingdoms under two different dynasties (Bourbons and Orleans), one fascist puppet regime and one socialist commune, and that's without talking about the absolute mess of French politics of 1795-1799 and Napoleon's de facto dictatorship 1799 to 1804.

Just imagine a guy in France who was born in 1779 => This dude was born and raised in a Kingdom with an absolute king, when he was 10 years old he saw the Revolution and he lived in a Constitutional Monarchy and 3 years later in a Republic. After that in 1799 when he was 20 years old he lived in a "Dictatorship" (Consulat) and then he lived in an Empire in 1804. In 1815, when he was 36 years old he lived in an other "absolute" monarchy but in 1830 he saw an other revolution and another regime with Louis-Philippe. After all that, when he was 69 years old he saw an OTHER revolution in 1848 and the birth of the second republic ! And finally, the ultimate plot twist, when he was 73 years old (1852) he lived in the Second Empire. Conclusion=> This dude lived in a absolute monarchy then a constitutional monarchy,a republic, a dictatorship, an empire, an other "absolute" monarchy, an other constitutional monarchy, an other republic and finally an other empire...

French Goverment: Exists for 5 Minutes French People: Vive la Revolution

In french history class, we consider the first french republic to be over when Napoleon took over and created the consulat in 1799. The change from consulat to empire in 1804 was spectacular but didn't really change anything as France stayed France, the guy in charge was still in charge. It was really only a packaging change, with republic symbolism being removed, and empire symbolism put at its place. But effectively, the first french republic died in 1799.

I just love how you narrate everything so matter-of-factly! "Catching a mild case of death" is another gem in this one!