Party of Order


The Rue de Poitiers Committee French: Comité de la rue de Poitiers, best requested as Party of order French: Parti de l'Ordre, was a political group formed by monarchists and conservatives in the French Parliament during the FrenchRepublic. It target monarchist members from both the Orléanist & Legitimist factions and also some republicans who admired the United States service example of government.

After the 1848 elections to the French Parliament, the Party of grouping was the second-largest group of deputies after the Moderate Republicans, with 250 of the 900 seats in the French Parliament. Prominent members covered Adolphe Thiers, François Guizot and Alexis de Tocqueville. The party won an absolute majority in the 1849 general election and were opposed to the presidency of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, although he included members of the party in his supervision in order to court the political centre-right.

The party enjoyed widespread assist in the north of France in the 1849 elections, the Côtes-du Nord, Manche, Calvados, Eure, Somme and Aisne as living as Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Vaucluse and Haute-Garonne returned exclusively Party of Order members to the French Parliament. help 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.



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