Party of Order
| Party of Order Parti de l'Ordre | |
|---|---|
| Leaders | Adolphe Thiers Odillon Barrot François Guizot Alexis de Tocqueville |
| Founded | 1848 |
| Dissolved | 1852 |
| Merger of | Movement Party Resistance Party Other Legitimists |
| Headquarters | 12, rue de Poitiers, Paris |
| Ideology | Conservatism (French) Liberal conservatism[1] Monarchism (majority) Factions: Legitimism Orléanism Republicanism |
| Political position | Centre-right[2] to right-wing[3] |
| Colours | Blue White |
| Slogan | "Order, Property, Religion" |
| Politics of France Political parties Elections | |
The Rue de Poitiers Committee (French: Comité de la rue de Poitiers), best known as the Party of Order (French: Parti de l'Ordre), was a political group formed by monarchists[4] and conservatives[5][6] in the French Parliament during the French Second Republic. It included monarchist members from both the Orléanist and Legitimist factions and also some republicans who admired the United States model of government.
After the 1848 elections to the French Parliament, the Party of Order was the second-largest group of deputies after the Moderate Republicans, with 250 of the 900 seats in the French Parliament. Prominent members included Adolphe Thiers, François Guizot and Alexis de Tocqueville. The party won an absolute majority in the 1849 general election[7] and were opposed to the presidency of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, although he included members of the party in his administration in order to court the political centre-right.
The party enjoyed widespread support in the north of France in the 1849 elections, the departments of Finistère, Côtes-du Nord, Manche, Calvados, Eure, Somme and Aisne as well as Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Vaucluse and Haute-Garonne returned exclusively Party of Order members to the French Parliament. Support was lower in the east of the country.
After the Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte's coup d'état in December 1851, the party was forcibly dissolved and its members were exiled.[8]
Electoral results
| National Assembly | ||||||
| Election year | No. of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
No. of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1848 | 1,802,125 (2nd) | 22.7 | 200 / 880 | New | Victor Hugo | |
| 1849 | 3,310,000 (1st) | 50.2 | 450 / 705 | 250 | Alexis de Tocqueville | |
See also
References
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