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Popular Legitimism and the Monarchy in France

Mass Politics without Parties, 1830–1880

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Authors:
  1. Bernard Rulof

    1. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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  • Explores the implications of popular support for French legitimism in mid-nineteenth-century France
  • Analyses popular, rather than élite, support for the monarchy, addressing a gap in previous literature
  • Argues that popular royalism was a political movement characteristic of the emergence of mass politics in this period, before the creation of political parties

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy (PSMM)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Bernard Rulof
    Pages 1-39

  3. Disputing Space and Citizenship: Popular Legitimism in 1848

    • Bernard Rulof
    Pages 41-75

  4. ‘Individuals without cohesion among themselves’? Or, the Making of a Movement

    • Bernard Rulof
    Pages 77-101

  5. Legitimist Electoral Politics, 1830–1851

    • Bernard Rulof
    Pages 103-132

  6. “How Have We Let the Flag of Order (…) Slip Out of Our Hands?” Legitimism on the Defence, 1852–1883

    • Bernard Rulof
    Pages 133-157

  7. A City of Inequalities

    • Bernard Rulof
    Pages 159-179

  8. The Legitimist Movement

    • Bernard Rulof
    Pages 181-209

  9. Imagining the Bon Roi

    • Bernard Rulof
    Pages 211-237

  10. Writing Legitimism: The Local Press

    • Bernard Rulof
    Pages 239-265

  11. From Pleasure to Supervision: Legitimist Sociability

    • Bernard Rulof
    Pages 267-295

  12. Conclusion

    • Bernard Rulof
    Pages 297-313

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 315-350
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About this book

This book explores mid-nineteenth-century French legitimism and the implications of popular support for a movement that has traditionally been portrayed as an aristocratic force intent on restoring the Old Regime. This type of monarchism has often been understood as a form of elitist patronage politics or, alternatively, identified with ultramontane Catholicism. Although historians have offered a more nuanced view in the last few decades, their work, nevertheless, has predominantly focused on legitimist leaders rather than their followers and their professed feelings of loyalty to monarchy and monarch. This book’s originality therefore is twofold: firstly as an analysis of popular rather than élite monarchism; and secondly, as a study which portrays this form of royalism as a political movement characteristic of a period which saw the emergence of mass politics, while parties were still non-existent. It not only discusses the social and cultural settings of (popular) monarchism, but also contributes to the history of political parties, citizenship and democracy.

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“This is a fascinating study of the mass politics of hard-line ‘legitimism’, the uncompromising wing of royalism in post-revolutionary southern France. Instead of another study of its aristocratic and religious leaders, Rulof instead probes why there was mass support for this royalism, particularly in Languedoc. Why would working people fervently, even violently, support a movement which was at odds with the alternative promises of secular, republican progress? This was a type of popular politics which was of genuine importance for a long period of European history. We are still living with its offshoots.” (Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne, Australia)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Bernard Rulof

About the author

Bernard Rulof is Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Popular Legitimism and the Monarchy in France

  • Book Subtitle: Mass Politics without Parties, 1830–1880

  • Authors: Bernard Rulof

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52758-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52757-0Published: 11 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52760-0Published: 12 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52758-7Published: 10 September 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2947-5864

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-5872

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 350

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of France, History of Modern Europe, Cultural History, Social History, Political History

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