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
- Orléanists, who, in late 18th- and 19th century France, supported the Orléans 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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