Movement Party (France)

Movement Party
Parti de mouvement
LeaderJacques Laffitte
Odilon Barrot
Adolphe Thiers
Founded1831; 193 years ago (1831)
Dissolved1848; 176 years ago (1848)
Preceded byDoctrinaires
Merged intoParty of Order
NewspaperLe National
Le Siècle
IdeologyLiberalism[1]
Nationalism[2]
Progressivism[2]
Orléanism[2]
Political positionCentre-left[A]
Colours  Rose

^ A: Movement Party, along with Resistance Party, was a major monarchist party during the July Monarchy period. The Movement Party were more conservative compared to the progressive Republicans (centre-left/left-wing), but were more progressive/moderate than the centre-right Resistance Party.

The Movement Party (French: Parti du Mouvement) was a centre-left liberal monarchist political group during the July Monarchy.[3][1]

The party sat on the centre-left of the Chamber of Deputies between the small leftist republican opposition and the centrist conservative-liberal Third Party, but to the left from the conservative Resistance Party.

  1. ^ a b Frederick A. De Luna, ed. (2015). The French Republic under Cavaignac, 1848. Princeton University Press. p. 14. ISBN 9781400879809. ... For the first six months of the July Monarchy, the republicans remained an ill-defined faction within the "party of movement," and associated with the liberal monarchists in Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera." The new regime was at first ...
  2. ^ a b c Rémond, René (1966). University of Pennsylvania Press (ed.). The Right Wing in France: From 1815 to de Gaulle.
  3. ^ Civilization and Society in the West. p. 439.