The Resistance Party (french: Parti de la Résistance) was a centre-right conservative Orléanist

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during the

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.''Civilization and Society in the West. p. 439. The party sat on the

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of the

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, to the left of the

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, but to the right of the

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opposition, the centre-left Movement Party and the

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History

The Resistance Party came to power with Casimir Pierre Périer in 1831 and would remain there essentially until the end of the reign. At the head of the government since March 1831, Périer brought in the army against the Lyons canuts. This revolt took place in the working-class districts of Lyons. The rioters brandished the black flag by chanting "live by working or dying while fighting". After the death of Périer in 1832, his associate

François Guizot François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (; 4 October 1787 – 12 September 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848. A conservative liberal who opposed the a ...

became the party leader. He imposed a peaceful foreign policy and a conservative domestic policy. This government was unpopular in 1840 because to consolidate the regime the government did not hesitate to corrupt parliament. In the elections of 1842, the Guizot government imposed itself by a favorable economic situation. However, the tension between workers and industrialists became too strong and revolts exploded. King

Louis Philippe I Louis Philippe (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary War ...

removed Guizot from power in 1847.

Louis-Mathieu Molé Louis-Mathieu Molé (24 January 1781 – 23 November 1855), also 1st Count Molé from 1809 to 1815, was a French statesman, close friend and associate of Louis Philippe I, King of the French during the July Monarchy (1830–1848). Biograph ...

was appointed briefly as

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, attempting to repress the

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, but he failed. The

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was abolished and the new

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was born in 1848. Many members of the Resistance Party, like other parliamentary groups under the July Monarchy, merged in the

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, a

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expression in the new regime.

Ideology

The Resistance Party believed that the

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cause had been fulfilled by the

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. The party envisioned the

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as a means to restore order and legality after the ''coup d'état'' of

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, rather than as a radical break from the existing order. Their governments supported a

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and

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policy, retaining the censal system and holding a ''

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'' economic stance. The party did back some progressive measures such as the school law of 1833, which established free public education for the poor.

Electoral results

References

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History

Ideology

Electoral results

See also

References