Democratic Republican Alliance

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.