Government of the French Republic from 1946 to 1958.
The postwar provisional president Charles de Third Republic . The lower house of parliament, renamed the National Assembly, was the locus of power. Shaky coalition cabinets succeeded one another, and the lack of a clear-cut majority hampered coherent action. Political leaders included {{link=Bidault, Georges -Augustin">Georges Bidault , Pierre Mendès-France , René Pleven , and Robert Schuman .