Chamber of Deputies (France)

The Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the French parliament at two periods of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From 1814 to 1848, under the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy, it was elected by census suffrage, deputies needing to be a certain age and pay a minimum of direct taxes, and its main roles were to discuss laws and vote taxes. It was created by the Charter of 1814, replacing the Corps legislatif of the First Empire, and was briefly replaced by a Chamber of Representatives during the Hundred Days of 1815. From 1875 to 1940, under the Third Republic, it was the legislative assembly of the French parliament, elected by a two-round system with universal male suffrage, and when joined with the Senate at Versailles as the National Assembly it elected the President of the Republic.