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Resistance Party

Parti de la Résistance
Resistance Party Parti de la Résistance
Leader	Casimir Périer; Adolphe Thiers; François Guizot
Founded	1832; 192 years ago
Dissolved	1848; 176 years ago
Merger of	Doctrinaires
Merged into	Party of Order
Newspaper	Journal des débats; La Presse
Ideology	Conservatism; Liberal conservatism; Orléanism
Political position	Centre-right
Colours	Blue
	Politics of France; Political parties; Elections;

The Resistance Party (French: Parti de la Résistance) was a centre-right conservative Orléanist political group during the July Monarchy.^[3]

The party sat on the centre-right of the Chamber of Deputies, to the left of the Legitimists, but to the right of the republican opposition, the centre-left Movement Party and the centrist Third Party.

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 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 removed Guizot from power in 1847. Louis-Mathieu Molé was appointed briefly as Prime Minister, attempting to repress the revolution, but he failed. The monarchy was abolished and the new French Republic was born in 1848.

Many members of the Resistance Party, like other parliamentary groups under the July Monarchy, merged in the Party of Order, a conservative expression in the new regime.

Ideology

The Resistance Party believed that the liberal cause had been fulfilled by the Charter of 1830. The party envisioned the July Revolution as a means to restore order and legality after the coup d'état of Charles X, rather than as a radical break from the existing order. Their governments supported a moderate and bourgeois policy, retaining the censal system and holding a laissez-faire 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

Election year	No. of overall votes	% of overall vote	No. of overall seats won	+/–	Leader
Chamber of Deputies
1834	89,885 (1st)	69.5	320 / 460	38	Édouard Mortier
1837	20,937 (3rd)	13.8	64 / 464	135	François Guizot
1839	87,352 (2nd)	43.4	199 / 459	67	François Guizot
1842	Unknown (1st)	58.0	266 / 459	37	Francois Guizot
1846	155,718 (1st)	63.3	290 / 459	24	Francois Guizot

References

^ Julian Jackson, ed. (2003). France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944. OUP Oxford. p. 385. ISBN 978-0-19-162288-5. ... the 'party of the resistance' described the conservative Orleanists who opposed the July Monarchy. ...
^ Mark Hulliung, ed. (2002). Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France. Harvard University Press.
^ Civilization and Society in the West. p. 439.

Bibliography

Sophie Kerignard; Laurent Colantonio; Véronique Fau-Vincenti; Alice Primi (2004). 100 fiches d'histoire du xixe siècle. Vol. l'Histoire de France, Larousse. Editions Bréal.