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.

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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 NERFINISHED
Louis-Philippe I NERFINISHED
continuedAs minor royalist current in modern France
country France
declinedAfter late 19th century
emergedAfter Bourbon Restoration NERFINISHED
goal restoration of the senior Bourbon line to the French throne
hadPoliticalExpressionIn Legitimist party NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
July Monarchy NERFINISHED
Second Empire NERFINISHED
opposedTo Bonapartism
Orléanism NERFINISHED
republicanism
politicalPosition far-right in 19th-century context
right-wing
recognizedAsLegitimateKing Charles X NERFINISHED
Louis XVIII NERFINISHED
region France NERFINISHED
rejectedLegitimacyOf Louis-Philippe I NERFINISHED
Napoleon I NERFINISHED
Napoleon III NERFINISHED
relatedMovement Carlism NERFINISHED
Spanish legitimism
sawAsHeir Bourbon pretender to the French throne
supportedBranch senior Bourbon line
supportedDynasty House of Bourbon NERFINISHED
upheldPrinciple divine right of kings
hereditary monarchy
viewedAsIllegitimate constitutional monarchy of 1830
republican regimes in France

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Alfonso Carlos I of Spain (Carlist claimant) ideology French legitimism
subject surface form: Alfonso Carlos I of Spain
this entity surface form: Legitimism
François-René de Chateaubriand ideology French legitimism