French Left
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The French Left refers to communist, socialist, social democratic, democratic socialist, and anarchist political forces in France. The term originates from the National Assembly of 1789, where support
Liberty Leading the People (1830) by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution of 1830. The child with the gun, at the right of the woman personifying Liberty, who holds the Republican, tricolor flag, would be Victor Hugo's inspiration for Gavroche in Les Misérables, who would die on the barricades in June 1832.
The massacre of the rue Transnonain, Paris, on 14 April 1834, depicted by the caricaturist Honoré Daumier.
Politics of France
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France is a semi-presidential system determined by the Constitution of the Fifth Republic. The nation declares itself to be an "indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic". The constitution
French Left
…Assembly, in which the more radical Jacobin deputies sat on the benches to the left of the hall. Throughout the 19th century, the main line dividing Left and Right in France was between supporters of the Republic and those of the Monarchy. On the right, the Legitimists held counter-revolutionary views and rejected any…
Emmanuel Macron, President since 2017
Sébastien Lecornu, Prime Minister since 9 September 2025
The National Assembly sits in the Palais Bourbon, by the Seine.
The Senate's amphitheater