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- Juan de Nova Island, New Caledonia, Tromelin Island, Wallis and Futuna
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- Independence: unified by Clovis in 486, First Republic proclaimed in 1792
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- Constitution: 28 September 1958, amended concerning election of
- president in 1962
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- Legal system: civil law system with indigenous concepts; review of
- administrative but not legislative acts
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- National holiday: Taking of the Bastille, 14 July (1789)
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- Executive branch: president, prime minister, Council of Ministers
- (cabinet)
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- Legislative branch: bicameral Parliament (Parlement) consists of an
- upper house or Senate (Senat) and a lower house or National Assembly
- (Assemblee Nationale)
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