The Movement Party () was a centre-left liberal monarchist

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during the

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. The party sat on the

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of the

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between the small leftist republican opposition and the

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conservative-liberal Third Party, but to the left from the

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Resistance Party.

History

The founder of the Movement Party was Jacques Laffitte, an

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banker who supported the

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of 1830. King

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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

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was a step toward a more democratic regime and they actively supported progressive policies such as a strong

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, expanded

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and

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against foreign interests. After the fall of Lafitte,

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became party leader. Thiers was well connected to the King and became

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's cabinet. As Minister of the Interior, Thiers was charged with repressing the Canut revolts of 1834. He also supported repressive laws after Giuseppe Marco Fieschi's assassination attempt against Louis Philippe. Thiers was appointed

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briefly for two brief stints in 1836 and 1840, but his political fortune fell when his support to

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's independence claim from the

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caused tensions with

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and

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. Once confined to the opposition, the Movement Party united with the other groups hostile towards the conservative governments of Louis Philippe. The party launched several '' Campagne des banquets'' to support expanded suffrage.l'Histoire de France. Larousse. The party dissolved after the tensions of 1848–1849 exploded into the

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that brought to Louis Philippe's fall and birth of the

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. Many members of the Movement Party became Moderate Republicans or merged in the

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Electoral results

References

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History

Electoral results

See also

References