 In 1903 the VAR merged with the Christian Historical Voters' League to form the Christian Historical Party

The term anti-revolutionary was used to denote supporters of the main Protestant party, the Anti Revolutionary Party, which denounced the French Revolution.The dissenters against the organizational and political course of the ARP called themselves "free antirevolutionaries", implying that they upheld the Anti Revolutionary beliefs without being a member of the strong party organisation.The VAR was a conservative Protestant party.