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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Famous quotes containing the word france:
“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“America was too big to have been discovered all at one time. It would have been better for the graces if it had been discovered in pieces of about the size of France or Germany at a time.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)