Politics · October 4, 1958

Constitution of France

Name: Constitution of France
Start: 1958-10-04
Location: France

68 years ago · France

68th anniversary

The current Constitution of France was adopted on 4 October 1958. It is typically called the Constitution of the Fifth Republic (French: la Constitution de la Cinquième République), and it replaced the Constitution of the Fourth Republic of 1946, keeping its preamble.

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