Political party in France
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] conservatives [ 5] [ 6] 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] 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
% of
No. of
+/–
Leader
1848
1,802,125 (2nd)
22.7
New
1849
3,310,000 (1st)
50.2
250
See also
References
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Sources
Atlas Historique (1968). Stock: Paris. 
