Provisional Government of the French Republic

French Republic
République française (French)
1944–1946
Motto: "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité"
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem: "La Marseillaise"
  •   France
  •   French protectorates
  •   French occupation zones in Germany and Austria
StatusMilitary occupation
CapitalAlgiers (de facto, 3 June – 31 August 1944)
Paris (de jure; de facto from 31 August 1944)
Common languagesFrench
Religion
Secular state

In Alsace-Lorraine:

Roman Catholicism
Calvinism
Lutheranism
Judaism
GovernmentTripartisme
Chairman 
• 1944–1946
Charles de Gaulle
• 1946
Félix Gouin
• 1946
Georges Bidault
• 1946–1947
Léon Blum
LegislatureNational Assembly
Historical eraWorld War II
• Proclamation
3 June 1944
6 June 1944
15 August 1944
25 August 1944
19 March 1945
8 May 1945
24 October 1945
27 October 1946
CurrencyFrench franc
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Free France
Vichy France
German Military Administration
Nazi Germany
French Fourth Republic
French Union

The Provisional Government of the French Republic (PGFR; French: Gouvernement provisoire de la République française (GPRF)) was the provisional government of Free France between 3 June 1944 and 27 October 1946, following the liberation of continental France after Operations Overlord and Dragoon, and lasting until the establishment of the French Fourth Republic. Its establishment marked the official restoration and re-establishment of a provisional French Republic, assuring continuity with the defunct French Third Republic.

It succeeded the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN), which had been the provisional government of France in the overseas territories and metropolitan parts of the country (Algeria and Corsica) that had been liberated by the Free French. As the wartime government of France in 1944–1945, its main purposes were to handle the aftermath of the occupation of France and continue to wage war against Germany as one of the major Allies.

Its principal mission (in addition to the war) was to prepare the ground for a new constitutional order that resulted in the Fourth Republic. It also made several important reforms and political decisions, such as granting women the right to vote, founding the École nationale d'administration and laying the grounds of social security in France.