Provisional Government of the French Republic
After the liberation of France in 1944, the Vichy government was dissolved and the Provisional Government of the French Republic (, GPRF), also known as the French Committee of National Liberation, was instituted after a unanimous request of the Provisional Consultative Assembly to be properly represented. With most of the political class discredited and containing many members who had more or less collaborated with Nazi Germany, Gaullism and communism became the most popular political forces in France.