The Resistance Party came to power with Casimir Pierre Périer in 1831 and would remain there essentially until the end of the reign.
The rioters brandished the black flag by chanting "live by working or dying while fighting".
Louis-Mathieu Molé was appointed briefly as Prime Minister, attempting to repress the revolution, but he failed.
Their governments supported a moderate and bourgeois policy, retaining the censal system and holding a laissez-faire economic stance.
The party did back some progressive measures such as the school law of 1833, which established free public education for the poor.