Provisional Government of the French Republic

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French Republic République française (French)
1944–1946
Flag Emblem
Motto: "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem: "La Marseillaise"
France   French protectorates   French occupation zones in Germany and Austria
Status	Provisional government
Capital	Algiers (de facto, 3 June – 31 August 1944) Paris (de jure; de facto from 31 August 1944)
Common languages	French
Religion	Secular state In Alsace-Lorraine: Roman Catholicism Calvinism Lutheranism Judaism
Government	Tripartisme
Chairman
• 1944–1946	Charles de Gaulle
• 1946	Félix Gouin
• 1946	Georges Bidault
• 1946–1947	Léon Blum
Legislature	National Assembly
Historical era	World War II
• Proclamation	3 June 1944
• Normandy landings	6 June 1944
• Provence landings	15 August 1944
• Liberation of Paris	25 August 1944
• Invasion of Germany	19 March 1945
• Surrender of Germany	8 May 1945
• Admitted to the UN	24 October 1945
• Fourth Republic	27 October 1946
Currency	French 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.