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Legitimists

The Legitimists are royalists in France who adhere to the rights of dynastic succession of the descendants of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty, which was overthrown in the 1830 July Revolution. They reject the claim of the July Monarchy of 1830–1848, whose king was a member of the junior Orléans line of the Bourbon dynasty. Following the movement of Ultra-royalists during the Bourbon Restoration of 1814, legitimists came to form one of the three main right-wing factions in France, which was principally characterized by its counter-revolutionary views (they rejected the 1789 French Revolution, the Republic and everything that went with it; thus, they progressively became a far-right movement). The other two right-wing factions are, according to historian René Rémond, the Orléanists and the Bonapartists.

Legitimists hold that the king of France must be chosen according to the traditional rules of succession based in the Salic law. When the direct line of Charles X became extinct in 1883 with the death of his grandson Henri, Count of Chambord, the most senior heir to the throne under these traditional rules was Juan, Count of Montizón, a descendent of Louis XIV via his grandson Philip V of Spain.

Legitimists (disambiguation)

Legitimists may refer to:

  • Legitimists, Royalists in France who believe that the King of France and Navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the Salic Law
  • Jacobitism, the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland
  • Carlists, a traditionalist, legitimist political movement in Spain seeking, among other things, the establishment of a separate line of the Bourbon family on the Spanish throne
  • Miguelistas, legitimists of Portugal
  • Legitimist Party (Nicaragua)

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