Republican Union (France)
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Republican Union
Union républicaine |
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| Leaders |
Léon Gambetta, Louis Blanc, Charles Floquet, Georges Clemenceau |
| Founded | 1871 |
| Dissolved | 1885 |
| Merged into | Union of the Lefts |
| Headquarters | Paris |
| Ideology |
Radicalism Anti-clericalism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
The Republican Union (French: Union républicaine, UR) was French parliamentary group, founded in 1871 as a heterogeneus alliance of moderate radicals, former Communards and opponents to the French-Prussian Treaty.
Formed in the early years of the French Third Republic, the Republican Union, led by Léon Gambetta, was strongly opposed to the Treaty of Versailles, as much understanding to the Paris Commune, repressed by the moderate Adolphe Thiers.
The party's electoral lists also included notable activists and intellectuals like Louis Blanc (elected with 216,000 votes),Victor Hugo, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Edgar Quinet, Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, Émile Littré, Charles Floquet, Georges Clemenceau, Arthur Ranc and Gustave Courbet.
Initially on the extreme left of the Parliament of France, in the late 1870s the group became close to the Opportunist Republicans of Jules Ferry, causing a split of the far-left radicals, led by Clemenceu. During the Gambetta government (1881–1882), René Goblet also broke away from the group to form the Radical Left.
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