Progressive Republicans (France)
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Progressive Republicans
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| Leader |
Jean Casimir-Perier Alexandre Ribot Jules Méline |
| Founded | 1889 |
| Dissolved | 1901 |
| Preceded by | Opportunist Republicans |
| Succeeded by |
Democratic Republican Alliance, Republican Federation |
| Ideology |
Liberalism Liberal conservatism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Union libérale républicaine | |
| Abbreviation | ULR |
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| Merged into | Republican Federation |
| Formation | March 1889 |
| Founder | Léon Say and Georges Picot |
| Extinction | 1 November 1903 |
| Purpose | Opposition to Boulangisme; defense of businessmen, farmers and Catholics |
| Headquarters | 15, rue de la Ville-l'Évêque, Paris |
| Location | |
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Chairman
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Henri Barboux |
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Staff (1890)
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The Progressive Republicans (French: Républicains progressistes) were a parliamentary group in France active during the late 19th century, during the Third French Republic. The group was formed in 1889 after a split from the Moderate Republican majority, and constituted the parliamentary right-wing after the monarchists' decline during the end of the century. The Progressive Republicans were later reunited into the Liberal Republican Union (French: Union libérale républicaine, ULR).
Until the 1880s, the French political landscape consisted of two main groups: the left-wing republicans, initially divided into the "Republican Left" of Jules Grévy and the "Republican Union" of Léon Gambetta, and the right-wing monarchists, separated into Orléanists, Legitimists and Bonapartists. In 1885, the two republican groups merged to form the "Democratic Union" to prevent a return of the monarchy. However, the Union was unable to effectively change the political system, characterised by its instability, and in 1887, the parliamentary opposition (socialists, radicals and monarchists) to the republican majority rallied around the figure of General Georges Boulanger, former War Minister excluded by the government for his radical nationalism. Facing the threat from the popular Boulanger, the republican group became divided into two opposing factions: on one side, the old republican guard, led by Jules Ferry, founded in 1888 the self-declared leftist National Republican Association; on the other side, the conservative republicans, led by Georges Patinot, launched the Liberal Union in 1889.
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