The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_May_1877_crisis" id="mwsA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="16 May 1877 crisis">16 May 1877 crisis</a> occurs in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Third_Republic" id="mwsQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Third Republic">France</a>, ending with the dissolution of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Parliament" id="mwsg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Parliament">National Assembly</a> 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Constitutional_Laws_of_1875" id="mwsw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Constitutional Laws of 1875">Constitution of 1875</a> as a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary" id="mwtA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Parliamentary">parliamentary</a> rather than <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_system" id="mwtQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Presidential system">presidential system</a>. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchism_in_France" id="mwtg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Monarchism in France">royalists</a> as a formal political movement in France.<sup about="#mwt91" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"}}' id="cite_ref-15" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_16#cite_note-15" id="mwtw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 15;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwuA">[15]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"><cite about="#mwt88" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFFortescue2001">Fortescue, William (2001). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4CMxDwAAQBAJ" id="mwByU" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwByY">The Third Republic in France, 1870-1940: Conflicts and Continuities</i></a>. London: Routledge. pp.<span id="mwByc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>33–34. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwByg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwByk" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/0415169445" id="mwByo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0415169445"><bdi id="mwBys">0415169445</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt88" class="Z3988" id="mwByw" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Third+Republic+in+France%2C+1870-1940%3A+Conflicts+and+Continuities&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=33-34&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.isbn=0415169445&amp;rft.aulast=Fortescue&amp;rft.aufirst=William&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D4CMxDwAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+16"></span></span>