Movement Party (France)

The Movement Party (French: Parti du Mouvement) was a centre-left liberal monarchist political group during the July Monarchy.

Movement Party
Parti de mouvement
LeaderJacques Laffitte
Odilon Barrot
Adolphe Thiers
Founded1831 (1831)
Dissolved1848 (1848)
Preceded byDoctrinaires
Merged intoParty of Order
NewspaperLe National
Le Siècle
IdeologyLiberalism
Nationalism
Progressivism
Orléanism
Political positionCentre-left[A]
Colours  Rose

^ A: Movement Party, along with Resistance Party, was a major monarchist party during the July Monarchy period. The Movement Party were more conservative compared to the progressive Republicans (centre-left/left-wing), but were more progressive/moderate than the centre-right Resistance Party.

The party sat on the centre-left of the Chamber of Deputies between the small leftist republican opposition and the centrist conservative-liberal Third Party, but to the left from the conservative Resistance Party.

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