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.
Bernard Rulof is Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
1. Introduction.- 2. Disputing Space and Citizenship: Popular Legitimism in 1848.- 3. ‘Individuals without cohesion among themselves’? Or, the Making of a Movement.- 4. Legitimist Electoral Politics, 1830–1851.- 5. “How Have We Let the Flag of Order (…) Slip Out of Our Hands?” Legitimism on the Defence, 1852–188.- 6. A City of Inequalities.- 7. The Legitimist Movement.- 8. Imagining the Bon Roi.- 9. Writing Legitimism: The Local Press.- 10. From Pleasure to Supervision: Legitimist Sociability.- 11. Conclusion.