France–Yugoslavia relations
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France–Yugoslavia relations (French: Relations France-Yougoslavie; Serbo-Croatian: Francusko-jugoslavenski odnosi, Француско-југословенски односи; Slovene: Francosko-jugoslovanski odnosi; Macedonian: Односите Франција-Југославија) were the historical foreign relations between France and Yugoslavia. These spanned from just after the First World War, to the eventual break-up of Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the Cold War. Over this period, there were several successive governments in both countries. France was variously: the Third Republic, Free France, the wartime Provisional Government, the post-war Fourth Republic, and the modern Fifth Republic. Coterminously, the states governing what is today the former Yugoslavia were: the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the wartime government in exile, the wartime provisional Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
During the Second World War, there were additionally the Axis puppets of Vichy France, the Government of National Salvation (Nedic's Serbia), and the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), which governed portions of the respective territories of the three occupied countries.