query: When did France become a republic?
passage: French Republics
French Republics refer to a succession of republics after the proclamation of the French Revolution and the abolition of the monarchy in France in 1792.
passage: French Third Republic
The French Third Republic (, sometimes written as ) was the system of government adopted in France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940 after France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government in France.