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DeGaulle stays in Paris during the strikes and tries to continue operating the French government rather than flee to Germany. Strikers begin taking government buildings by force, and they capture DeGaulle and the other ministers of the 5th republic. The police and military come into Paris and engage in violent action against the revolutionaries, and all of France explodes in support and sympathy. The Communist party in pushed into aligning itself fully with the revolutionaries in the light of their much-more-plausible looking overthrow of the French government. The leaders of the movement take up residence in the barricaded government buildings and declare the French Socialist Republic, popularly called the "6th republic". What happens next?
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