French Royalism under the Third and Fourth Republics

"Let them come forward, they are thirsty for the sight of a King," said Henri IV to his followers who were trying to push back the curious crowds as he entered Paris in February, I594. It is perhaps to be regretted that seven kings (to say nothing of two emperors) have since more than quen...

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Main Author: Osgood, Samuel M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1960, 1960
Edition:1st ed. 1960
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a I The Missed Opportunity 1871–1873 -- II The ‘Unhappy Reign’ of ‘Philippe VII’ 1883–1894 -- III The Beginnings of the Action Française Charles Maurras -- IV The Action Française Militant 1906–1914 -- V The Action Française Between the Wars 1919–1934 -- VI The Comte de Paris and the Action Française 1934–1937 -- VII The Comte de Paris Doctrines and Politics to 1939 -- VIII The Royalist Movement on the Eve of World War II -- IX World War II -- X The Aftermath 1945–1950 -- XI Maurrassians, The Comte de Paris, and the Fourth Republic -- XII Conclusion -- Genealogical Table 
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520 |a "Let them come forward, they are thirsty for the sight of a King," said Henri IV to his followers who were trying to push back the curious crowds as he entered Paris in February, I594. It is perhaps to be regretted that seven kings (to say nothing of two emperors) have since more than quenched the French's taste for royalty, because they have long been in need of - and periodically have sought - a symbol of national unity. Modern-day France has had far more than her share of revolutions, counterrevolutions, uprisings, days, coups, affairs, crises, scandals - and constitution drafting. While it would be an over­ simplification to interpret this endemie strife as a seesaw conflict between two well-integrated blocs with the ideology of the Great Revolution as the dividing issue, the fact remains that since I789 political divisions and quarrels among Frenchmen have been deep, bitter, and fundamental. may have been the one solution which After I870, a Republic divided Frenchmen the least (to borrow an expression from Monsieur Thiers); but like any and all of the preceding alternatives it was to incur the relentless, irreconcilable opposition of important segments of the population. This study deals with those individuals and organ­ izations which continued to advocate, and sought to bring about a return to the monarchy under the Third and Fourth Republies