Republican Union Union républicaine | |
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President | Léon Gambetta |
Founded | 1871 |
Dissolved | 1885 |
Preceded by | Moderate Republicans |
Ideology | Anti-clericalism Liberalism (faction) Radicalism (faction) Republicanism |
Political position | Left-wing |
Colours | Red |
Chamber(s): Chamber of Deputies and Senate Legislature(s): 1st–4th of the Third Republic Constituency: Member of Parliament for Seine |
The Republican Union (French: Union républicaine, UR), later known as the Progressive Union (French: Union progressiste, UP), was a French parliamentary group founded in 1871 as a heterogeneous alliance of moderate radicals, former Communards and opponents of the French-Prussian Treaty.