Question

who were liberals in French society

Answer 1

Liberalism and radicalism in Francerefer to different movements and ideologies.

The main line of conflict in France during the 19th century was between monarchists (mainly Legitimists and Orléanists, but also Bonapartists) and republicans (Radical-Socialists, Opportunist Republicans, and later socialists). The Orléanists, which favoured constitutional monarchy and economic liberalism, were opposed to Republican Radicals.

The Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (now divided into the center-right Radical Party and the center-left Radical Party of the Left), and especially the Republican parties (Democratic Republican Alliance, Republican Federation, National Centre of Independents and Peasants, Independent Republicans, Republican Party, Liberal Democracy) have since embraced liberalism, including its economic version, and have mostly joined either the Union for a Popular Movement in 2002, later re-named The Republicans in 2015, or the Union of Democrats and Independents, launched in 2012.

In 2016 Emmanuel Macron, a former Socialist, launched En Marche! and in 2017 was elected President of France

Answer 2

19th century France Liberalism between the French Revolution and the first world war .
France produced an impressive group of classical liberal and conservative writers.....by the time the first world war broke out the France liberal movement had been fatally weakened and it virtually disappeared.