Originally posted by Darkrenown
Woah, its not that often! Elections only come every 4-6 years.
Thats the way it is today (every 5 year now for most of representatives, use to be 7 for president) but we're talking about the 3rd republic in 1936, where the Ministers change very often depending of the running coalition (many small groups in the chambers, making impossible to do anything but keep a statu quo most of the time)
just as an example, between the 01 jan 1936 and the armistice in jun 1940, there was 10 different "Ministre de l'Interieur"
see http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/rubriques/c/c2_le_ministere/c24_histoire/Histoire_3ieme_republique