Royalist - in France

In France

  • Legitimists, French royalists upholding Salic Law
    • Chouannerie, a royalist group during the French Revolution
    • Ultra-royalists, a nineteenth-century reactionary faction of the French parliament
  • OrlĂ©anists, who, in late 18th- and 19th century France, supported the OrlĂ©ans branch of the French royal family, which came to power in the French monarch July Revolution
  • Bonapartists, supporters of the Bonaparte imperial line

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