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@slothrop @cstross the second was the one where they elected (universal male suffrage, first time! Yay!) Louis Napoléon Bonaparte president in 1848, straight away. He had the good grace to wait out most of his allowed term to then have a coup+referendum to be declared emperor in 1851.
The Third Republic then managed to last from 1871-1940, over several electoral cycles and mostly peaceful changes of government, with most of the political discourse by then not being anti-republican in some way.