> Perhaps the French Third Republic would be better. :-) I'm not sure a lot of people on the internet would be able to place the third Republic on a timeline.

> Perhaps the French Third Republic would be better. :-) I'm not sure a lot of people on the internet would be able to place the third Republic on a timeline. And then we'd be talking a 70-years period, close to the length of the Vvictorian era, but shifted 30 years forward ;-)