12-512: Republican Union may refer to: Republican Union (France) Republican Union (French Somaliland) Republican Union (Portugal) Republican Union (Puerto Rico) Republican Union (Spain, 1886) Republican Union Party (Spain) Republican Union (Spain, 1934) See also [ edit ] Popular Republican Union (disambiguation) Republican (disambiguation) Republic (disambiguation) Republicanism Topics referred to by
24-641: A Liberal journal, Le Progrès de la Somme , and in July 1871 he was sent by the département of the Somme to the National Assembly, where he took his place on the extreme left , as a member of the Republican Union parliamentary group ( Union républicaine ). Having failed to secure election in 1876, he was returned for Amiens the following year. He held a minor government office in 1879, and in 1882 became minister of
36-478: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Republican Union (France) The Republican Union ( French : Union républicaine , UR), later known as the Progressive Union ( French : Union progressiste , UP), was a French parliamentary group founded in 1871 as a heterogeneous alliance of moderate radicals , former Communards and opponents of
48-880: 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 Frankfurt 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
60-630: The extreme left of the Parliament of France , the group became close to the Opportunist Republicans of Jules Ferry in the late 1870s, 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 . After the 1885 legislative election , the Republican Union's popularity decreased while
72-593: The Opportunists to their right increased their votes. In 1894, one of the last prominent members of the group, Gustave Isambert , renamed the Republican Union as the Progressive Union and with an handful of deputies and senators continued to pursue Gambetta's goals. However, changes in the political system led to a need for a big party of all liberals and when the Democratic Republican Alliance
84-501: The arrest on the German frontier of a French official named Schnaebele, which caused immense excitement in France. For some days Goblet took no definite decision, but left Flourens, who stood for peace, to fight it out with General Boulanger , the minister of war, who urged the despatch of an ultimatum. Although he finally intervened on the side of Flourens, and peace was preserved, his weakness in
96-510: The face of Boulangist propaganda became a national danger. Defeated on the budget in May 1887, his government resigned; but he returned to office next year as foreign minister in the radical administration of Charles Floquet . He was defeated at the polls by a Boulangist candidate in 1889, and sat in the senate from 1891 to 1893 when he returned to the popular chamber. In association with Édouard Locroy , Ferdinand Sarrien and Paul Peytral he drew up
108-553: The fall of the Freycinet cabinet in December he formed a cabinet in which be reserved for himself the portfolios of the interior and of religion. The Goblet cabinet was unpopular from the outset, and it was with difficulty that anybody could be found to accept the ministry of foreign affairs, which was finally given to Gustave Flourens . Then came what is known as the Schnaebele incident ,
120-589: The interior in the Freycinet cabinet. He was minister of education, fine arts and religion in Henri Brisson 's first cabinet in 1885, and again under Freycinet in 1886, when he greatly increased his reputation by an able defence of the government's education proposals. Meanwhile, his independence and outspokenness had alienated him from many of his party, and throughout his life he was frequently in conflict with his political associates, from Léon Gambetta downwards. On
132-473: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Republican Union . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Republican_Union&oldid=1105434255 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Political party disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732848608875144-467: Was created in 1901 the Opportunists and the Progressive Union merged into it. Ren%C3%A9 Goblet René Marie Goblet ( French pronunciation: [ʁəne ɡɔblɛ] ; 26 November 1828 – 13 September 1905) was a French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886–1887. He was born at Aire-sur-la-Lys , Pas-de-Calais and was trained in law. Under the Second Empire , he helped found
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