what government does france have?
Semi-presidential system Constitutional republic Unitary state
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 France views the Covenant as subservient to the UN Charter . It also reserves the right to govern the access of aliens to employment , social security , and other benefits . 

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 From the mid @-@ 1960s to the mid @-@ 1990s , France pursued a military strategy of independence from NATO under a policy dubbed " Gaullo @-@ Mitterrandism " . Nicolas Sarkozy negotiated the return of France to the integrated military command and the Defence Planning Committee in 2009 , the latter being disbanded the following year . France remains the only NATO member outside the Nuclear Planning Group and unlike the United States and the United Kingdom , will not commit its nuclear @-@ armed submarines to the alliance . 

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 During the negotiations , two supervisory institutions were put forward to counterbalance the power of the High Authority . The " Common Assembly " proposed by Jean Monnet to act as a monitor , counterweight and to add democratic legitimacy was composed of 78 national parliamentarians . The second was the Council of Ministers , pushed by the smaller states also to add an intergovernmental element and harmonise national polices with those of the authority . 

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 After involving itself in the Seven Years ' War and the American Revolutionary War , France found itself financially ruined . Attempts to pass an economic plan to alleviate this in the Estates @-@ General of 1789 led instead to the third estate — the commoners — forking to form the National Assembly . Succeeded in turn by the National Constituent Assembly and the Legislative Assembly , the various legislative bodies succeeded in rendering the monarchy constitutional , limited by democratic institutions . Attempts to remove the monarch entirely , although thwarted on 20 June 1792 , led to the effective overthrow of Louis XVI on 10 August . On 21 October , France was formally declared a republic . 

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 The French Republic , established in 1792 at the height of the French Revolution , was by 1797 governed by a bicameral legislative assembly , with a five @-@ member Directory acting as the national executive . The Directory was undergoing both internal power struggles and struggles with the Council of Five Hundred , the lower chamber of the legislature . Ministerial changes took place in the first half of 1797 , including the selection in July of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand as foreign minister . Talleyrand , who had recently spent a few years in the United States , was openly concerned about the establishment of closer ties between the U. S. and Britain . The Directory , generally not well @-@ disposed to American interests , became notably more hostile to them in September 1797 , when an internal coup propelled several anti @-@ Americans into power . These leaders , and Talleyrand , viewed President Adams as hostile to their interests , but did not think that there was significant danger of war . In part based on advice imparted to French diplomats by Thomas Jefferson , Talleyrand decided to adopt a measured , slow pace to the negotiations . 
