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The Parti rouge (alternatively known as the Parti démocratique) was formed in the Province of Quebec around 1847 by radical French-Canadians inspired by the ideas of Louis-Joseph Papineau the Institut canadien de Montréal and the reformist movement led by the Parti patriote of the 1830s.The party was a successor to the Parti patriote. The reformist rouges did not believe that the 1840 Act of Union had truly granted a responsible government to former Upper and Lower Canada.