Provisional Consultative Assembly

Provisional Consultative Assembly

Assemblée consultative provisoire
French Committee of National Liberation
History
Established3 November 1943
Disbanded3 August 1945
Leadership
President

The Provisional Consultative Assembly (French: Assemblée consultative provisoire, [asɑ̃ble kɔ̃syltativ pʁɔvizwaʁ]) was a governmental organ of Free France that operated under the aegis of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) and that represented the resistance movements, political parties, and territories that were engaged against Germany in the Second World War alongside the Allies.

Established by ordinance on 17 September 1943 by the CFLN, it held its first meetings in Algiers, at the Palais Carnot (the former headquarters of the Financial Delegations), between 3 November 1943 and 25 July 1944. On 3 June 1944, it was placed under the authority of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF), which succeeded the CFLN. Restructured and expanded after the liberation of France, it held sessions in Paris at the Palais du Luxembourg between 7 November 1944 and 3 August 1945.