Ligue de la jeune République

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The Ligue de la Jeune République (Young Republic League) was a French political party created in 1912 by Marc Sangnier (1873-1950), in continuation with Le Sillon, his Christian social movement which was disavowed by the Pope Pius IX (1792-1878). The Young Republic League proned a "personalist" Socialism, on the model of Emmanuel Mounier's theory of personalism.

The Abbé Pierre (1912-2007) became for a short time member of this party in the 1950s, after quitting the Christian Democrat MRP (Popular Republican Movement).

Members of the Ligue de la jeune République later joined the Union de la gauche socialiste (Union of the Socialist Left), the first experience of a movement including both Marxists and Social Christians.