The Democratic Republican Alliance (French: Alliance républicaine démocratique, ARD; 1901–1911 and 1917–1920), also named Democratic Republican Party (French: Parti républicain démocratique, PRD; 1911–1917), Democratic and Social Republican Party (French: Parti républicain démocratique et social, PRDS; 1920–1926) and Democratic Republican Party (French: Parti républicain démocratique, PRD; 1911–1917), Democratic Alliance (French: Alliance démocratique, AD; 1926–1940), was a French political party (1901–1978) created in 1901 by followers of Léon Gambetta, such as Raymond Poincaré who would be president of the Council in the 1920s.