French legitimism

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French legitimism was a 19th-century French monarchist movement that upheld the hereditary rights of the senior Bourbon line and rejected the legitimacy of revolutionary and Bonapartist regimes.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
French Legitimism 2
Legitimists 2
French Legitimists 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf monarchist movement
political movement
associatedWith white flag of the Bourbons
basedOn principle of male primogeniture in the Bourbon line
claimedSuccessionFrom ancient French monarchy
consideredUsurper Bonaparte dynasty
Louis-Philippe I
continuedAs minor royalist current in modern France
country France
declinedAfter late 19th century
emergedAfter Bourbon Restoration
goal restoration of the senior Bourbon line to the French throne
hadPoliticalExpressionIn Legitimist party
historicalPeriod 19th century
ideology monarchism
royalism
influencedBy counter-revolutionary thought
ultra-royalism
language French
mainSupportBase Catholic conservatives
rural nobility
traditional aristocracy
opposedPrinciple popular sovereignty
opposedRegime Bonapartist regime
French Revolution
July Monarchy
Second Empire
opposedTo Bonapartism
Orléanism
republicanism
politicalPosition far-right in 19th-century context
right-wing
recognizedAsLegitimateKing Charles X
linked to: Charles X of France

Louis XVIII
region France
rejectedLegitimacyOf Louis-Philippe I
Napoleon I
Napoleon III
relatedMovement Carlism
linked to: Carlists

Spanish legitimism
sawAsHeir Bourbon pretender to the French throne
supportedBranch senior Bourbon line
supportedDynasty House of Bourbon
upheldPrinciple divine right of kings
hereditary monarchy
viewedAsIllegitimate constitutional monarchy of 1830
republican regimes in France

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

François-René de Chateaubriand ideology French legitimism
Alfonso Carlos I of Spain ideology Legitimism
linked to: French legitimism
Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou politicalMovement French Legitimism
linked to: French legitimism
French coup of 2 December 1851 opposedBy French Legitimists
linked to: French legitimism
abdication of Charles X opposedBy Legitimists
linked to: French legitimism
Orleanist (July Monarchy) opposedTo Legitimists
linked to: French legitimism
Louise Marie Thérèse d’Artois associatedWithPoliticalMovement French Legitimism
linked to: French legitimism