French Royalists
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French Royalists were supporters of the Bourbon monarchy during the French Revolution who opposed the revolutionary government and often allied with foreign powers to restore royal authority.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
counter-revolutionary group
→
political movement → |
| activeInPeriod |
French Revolution
→
Reign of Terror → Vendée uprising →
surface form: "War in the Vendée"
|
| aimedTo |
restore Louis XVI before his execution
→
restore the Bourbon line after the execution of Louis XVI → |
| alliedWith | foreign powers → |
| associatedWith |
Catholic and Royal Army
→
Vendée uprising →
surface form: "Chouans"
émigré nobles → |
| country | France → |
| engagedIn |
civil war
→
counter-revolutionary uprisings → |
| geopoliticalContext | French Revolutionary Wars → |
| goal | restoration of royal authority → |
| ideology |
monarchism
→
royalism → |
| inspired |
later French Legitimists
→
ultra-royalists during the Bourbon Restoration → |
| notableStronghold |
Brittany
→
Vendée → |
| opposed |
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
→
French First Republic →
surface form: "First French Republic"
French Revolution → French First Republic →
surface form: "Jacobin government"
Napoleon Bonaparte → radical republicanism → revolutionary government → |
| participatedIn |
13 Vendémiaire uprising (as opponents of the Republic)
→
Royalist insurrections in Paris → |
| politicalPosition | right-wing → |
| receivedSupportFrom |
Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
→
surface form: "Habsburg Monarchy"
Kingdom of Great Britain → Kingdom of Spain → |
| religion | Roman Catholicism → |
| slogan | Vive le Roi → |
| socialBase |
clergy
→
nobility → rural peasants → |
| supported |
Bourbon monarchy
→
privileges of the Church → privileges of the nobility → traditional social hierarchy → |
| supportedDynasty | House of Bourbon → |
| usedSymbol | white flag of the Bourbons → |
| viewedAs | traitors by many revolutionaries → |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.