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General facts
- Population: 39.6 million (1914)
- Capital: Paris (1914 population 3 million)
Government
- Head of State:
- President Raymond Poincaré (18 February 1913 – 18 February 1920)
- President Paul Deschanel (18 February 1920 – 21 September 1920)
- Head of Government:
- Prime Minister René Viviani (13 June 1914 – 29 October 1915)
- Prime Minister Aristide Briand (29 October 1915 – 20 March 1917)
- Prime Minister Alexandre Ribot (20 March – 12 September 1917)
- Prime Minister Paul Painlevé (12 September – 16 November 1917)
- Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau (16 November 1917 – 20 January 1920)
- Prime Minister Alexandre Millerand (20 January 1920 – 24 September 1920)
Participation in the War
- Entered the war: 3 August 1914 (Germany declared war on France)
- Ceased hostilities: 11 November 1918 (armistice with Germany)
- Ended belligerent status: 10 August 1920 (Treaty of Sèvres signed with the Ottoman Empire)
Military Forces
Army
- Peacetime strength 1914: 823,000
- Reserves 1914: 2.9 million
- Total mobilised 1914: 3.6 million
- Total mobilised during war: 8.7 million
Navy
- Peacetime strength 1914: 65,000
Fleet (1914)
- Battleships (Dreadnoughts): 4
- Battleships (pre-Dreadnoughts): 21
- Cruisers: 19
- Light cruisers: 6
- Destroyers: 81
- Submarines: 67
Casualties
Military
- Dead (all causes): 1,385,000
- Wounded: 3.2 million
Sources
- Anthony Clayton, Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914–18, Cassell, London, 2003
- Hew Strachan, The First World War, Volume I: To Arms, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001