The founder of the Movement Party was Jacques Laffitte, an Orléanist banker who supported the July Revolution of 1830.
The party members were Orléanists who believed that the Charter of 1830 was a step toward a more democratic regime and they actively supported progressive policies such as a strong parliamentary system, expanded suffrage and self-determination against foreign interests.
Thiers was appointed Prime Minister briefly for two brief stints in 1836 and 1840, but his political fortune fell when his support to Muhammad Ali's independence claim from the Ottoman Empire caused tensions with United Kingdom and Prussia.
Once confined to the opposition, the Movement Party united with the other groups hostile towards the conservative governments of Louis Philippe.
[5] The party dissolved after the tensions of 1848–1849 exploded into the February Revolution that brought to Louis Philippe's fall and birth of the Second French Republic.