Moderate Republicans (France, 1848–1870)

Moderate Republicans
Républicains modérés
LeadersAlphonse de Lamartine
Émile Ollivier
François Arago
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
Founded1848 (1848)
Dissolved1870 (1870)
Succeeded byModerate Republicans (1871)
Republican Union
HeadquartersParis, France
NewspaperLe National
L'Avenir national
IdeologyLiberalism
Parliamentarism
Republicanism
Political positionCentre-left
Colours  Orange

The Moderate Republicans were a large political group active from the birth of the French Second Republic (1848) to the collapse of the Second French Empire (1870).