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royalists

n. (plural of royalist English)

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Royalists (French Socialist Party)

Royalists is the name given to supporters of Ségolène Royal, the party's 2007 presidential candidate. Royal narrowly lost the Reims Congress vote on First Secretary to Martine Aubry.

Notable Royalists include Gérard Collomb, Jean-Noël Guérini, Gaëtan Gorce, Jean-Louis Bianco, Julien Dray, Vincent Peillon, Aurélie Filippetti, Georges Frêche, Hélène Mandroux, Jean-Jack Queyranne, François Rebsamen and Manuel Valls.

Usage examples of "royalists".

Marseilles began, in spite of the authorities, to rekindle the flames of civil war, always smouldering in the south, and it required but little to excite the populace to acts of far greater violence than the shouts and insults with which they assailed the royalists whenever they ventured abroad.

Oh, the royalists were very severe with the Bonapartists in those days.

Fernand was a Spaniard, and being sent to Spain to ascertain the feeling of his fellow-countrymen, found Danglars there, got on very intimate terms with him, won over the support of the royalists at the capital and in the provinces, received promises and made pledges on his own part, guided his regiment by paths known to himself alone through the mountain gorges which were held by the royalists, and, in fact, rendered such services in this brief campaign that, after the taking of Trocadero, he was made colonel, and received the title of count and the cross of an officer of the Legion of Honor.

Just like the armor worn by his Knights of the Roundear and the royalists fighting for the queen.

One of the Royalists was still there, horrified as he stared at the spouting end of his arm.

Nevertheless, as the deep logic of actions ought always to be italicized by the historian, it is necessary here to call to mind and to repeat, even to satiety, that apart from the members of the Left, of whom a very small number were present, and whom we have mentioned by name, the three hundred Representatives who thus defiled before the eyes of the crowd, constituted the old Royalists and reactionary majority of the Assembly.

It would be unjust not to record that others amongst the pure Royalists, and above all M.

De Flotte in one district, Victor Hugo in another, Schoelcher in a third, are actively urging on the combat, and expose their lives a score of times, but none feel themselves supported by any organized body: and moreover the attempt of the Royalists in the Tenth Arrondissement has roused apprehension.