id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7027 Liberalism and radicalism in France - Wikipedia .html text/html 2728 457 60 Liberalism and radicalism in France Wikipedia Find sources: "Liberalism and radicalism in France" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Economic liberalism in France was long associated more with the Orléanists and with Opportunist Republicans (whose heir was the Democratic Republican Alliance), rather than the Radical Party, leading to the use of the term radical to refer to political liberalism. In 1978 both the Republican Party (successor of the Independent Republicans) and the Radical Party were founding components, along with the Christian-democratic Centre of Social Democrats, of the Union for French Democracy, an alliance of non-Gaullist centre-right forces. The Republican Party, re-founded as Liberal Democracy and re-shaped as a free-market libertarian party, left the federation in 1998 and was later merged, along with the Radical Party, into the liberal-conservative Union for a Popular Movement (later The Republicans) in 2002. 2016: The UDI joins the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7027.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7027.txt