The Independent Left (french: Gauche indépendante, GI) was a French parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies of France of the French Third Republic during the interwar period. It was not a political party but a technical group formed by independents and parties too small to form their own parliamentary group, including dissidents from the Communist, Socialist and Radical-Socialist parties, as well as left-wing regional parties and left-wing Catholics. It provided a home to those republican independents and small parties who supported the

Cartels des Gauches The Cartel of the Left (french: Cartel des gauches, ) was the name of the governmental alliance between the Radical-Socialist Party, the socialist French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), and other smaller left-republican parties tha ...

and the Popular Front. As such, its exact membership changed from legislature to another. It was thus similar but distinct to the right-of-centre Independents of the Left group, which gathered up the independents and small parties who in temperament were similar to the right wing of the Radical-Socialists and the centre-right Radical Left, but who refused to support the Cartel and Popular Front.

Legislature of 1932 to 1936: the Cartel des Gauches

The following parties and independents sat in as the Left Independent technical group between 1932 and 1936: {, class="wikitable sortable" , Surname , Forename , Political Party (if applicable) , - , BERON , Emile , Communist Party of Alsace-Lorraine , - , CHATENET , Henri , independent , - , CHAUVEL , Georges , independent , - , DAHLET , Camille , Alsatian Progressive Party , - , DELOM-SORBE , Maurice , Jeune République , - , DEUDON , Paul , independent , - , DOEBLÉ , Victor , Communist Party of Alsace-Lorraine , - , LA CHAMBRE , Guy , independent Radical , - , MOURER , Jean-Pierre , Communist Party of Alsace-Lorraine , - , MOUTET , Georges , independent Radical , - , PRENTOUT , Richard , independent Radical , - , RENAITOUR , Jean-Michel , independent Socialist Republican , - , SABIANI , Simon , independent socialist , - , THEBAULT , Léon , independent , - , TORRES , Henry , independent socialist

Legislature of 1936 to 1940: the Popular Front

The Independent Left group's most famous incarnation existed between 1936 and 1940, when the following small parties sat in it: * Party of Proletarian Unity (PUP), dissident communist; * *

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(PF), a party formed by antifascist Radical-Socialists. * Radical-Socialist Party Camille Pelletan (PRS-CP), a party formed by antifascist Radical-Socialists. *Former members of the

Republican-Socialist Party The Republican-Socialist Party (french: Parti républicain-socialiste, PRS) was a French socialist political party during the French Third Republic founded in 1911 and dissolved in 1934. Founded by non-Marxist socialists who refused to join the ...

who did not join the

Socialist Republican Union The Socialist Republican Union (french: Union socialiste républicaine, USR) was a political party in France founded in 1935 during the late Third Republic which united the right-wing of the French Section of the Workers' International with the ...

(USR) * Progressive Party, the federalist counterpart to the Radical-Socialist Party, before its decision to sit with the other Alsatian regionalist parties in 1936. * Social-National Party (PSN), a small party founded by

Jean Hennessy Jean Patrick Hennessy (26 April 1874 – 4 November 1944) was a French politician. Hennessy was born at Cherves-Richemont in the Charente département, son of Maurice Hennessy and his wife Jeanne, née Foussat. His family, of Irish origin, w ...

. *

League of the Young Republic The Young Republic League (french: Ligue de la jeune république, LJR) was a French political party created in 1912 by Marc Sangnier, in continuation of ''Le Sillon'', Sangnier's Christian social movement which was disavowed by the Pope Pius X ( ...

(LJR), a social-Catholic pacifist party.

Legislature of 1932 to 1936: the Cartel des Gauches

Legislature of 1936 to 1940: the Popular Front

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