Movement Party (France)
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Movement Party Parti de mouvement | |
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Orléanism[2] | |
Political position | Centre-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 (
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.
History
The founder of the Movement Party was Jacques Laffitte, an Orléanist banker who supported the July Revolution of 1830. King Louis Philippe I asked Lafitte to form a government, but it lasted only six months because the King became more conservative over time. The party members were Orléanists who believed that the Charter of 1830 was a step toward a more democratic regime and they actively supported progressive policies such as a strong parliamentary system, expanded suffrage and self-determination against foreign interests.[4]
After the fall of Lafitte,
Once confined to the
Electoral results
Chamber of Deputies | ||||||
Election year | No. of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
No. of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader | |
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1834 | 21,073 (2nd) | 16.3 | 75 / 460
|
207
|
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1837 | 46,426 (2nd) | 30.6 | 142 / 464
|
67
|
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1839 | 87,352 (2nd) | 43.4 | 199 / 459
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57
|
||
1842 | Unknown (2d) | 42.0 | 193 / 459
|
6
|
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1846 | 90,282 (2nd) | 36.7 | 168 / 459
|
25
|
See also
References
- ^ 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 ...
- ^ a b c Rémond, René (1966). University of Pennsylvania Press (ed.). The Right Wing in France: From 1815 to de Gaulle.
- ^ Civilization and Society in the West. p. 439.
- ^ Sophie Kerignard; LaurentColantonio; Véronique Fau-Vincenti; Alice Primi (2004). 100 fiches d'histoire du xixe siècle. Editions Bréal.
- ^ l'Histoire de France. Larousse.