The
Democratic Republican Alliance (, ARD; 1901–1911 and 1917–1920), also named
Democratic Republican Party (, PRD; 1911–1917),
Democratic and Social Republican Party (, PRDS; 1920–1926) and
Democratic Republican Party (, PRD; 1911–1917),
Democratic Alliance (, AD; 1926–1940), was a
French political party (1901–1978) created in 1901 by followers of
Léon Gambetta, such as
Raymond Poincaré who would be president of the Council in the 1920s. The party was at first conceived by members of the
Radical-Socialist Party tied to the business world who united themselves in May 1901, along with many moderates, as gathering
center-left liberals and
"Opportunist" Republicans (Gambetta, etc.). However, after World War I and the parliamentary disappearance of
monarchists and
Bonapartists, it quickly became the main center-right party of the
Third Republic. It was part of the
National Bloc right-wing coalition which won the elections after the end of the war. The ARD successively took the name
Parti Républicain Démocratique (Democratic Republican Party, PRD) then
Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social ("Social and Republican Democratic Party"), before becoming again the AD.