Orleanism

The Orléanisme itself is a French political tendency born in 1830 from a division between royalist.

The orleanists, in favor of the branch junior by Orleans, “usurping” at that time of the throne of his/her cousins, in the person of Louis-Philippe Ier of Orleans, king of the French, opposed the legitimists, in favor of the elder branch of the Bourbons, which had just been driven out throne of France, by the Revolution, in the person of the king Charles X, the last “legitimates” king de France.

In 1883, with died of the last Bourbon of the elder branch, Henri “V”, “count de Chambord”, grandsons of Charles X, many legitimists joined themselves elder branch of Orleans, Philippe “VII”, “count de Paris”, grandson of Louis-Philippe. However other legitimists regarded new elder Bourbons as the legitimate one claiming with the throne of France, in fact Jean “III”, “count de Montizón”. Their tendency knew a Net renewal since the years 1980 when Alphonse “II”, duke “of Anjou and” Cadiz, travelled much to France, chairing many commemorative ceremonies, in particular at the time of the celebrations of the millenium capétien in 1987.

Today, the current elder one of the branch of Orleans east Henri “VII”, “count de Paris” and “duke of France”.

The partisans of the legitimacy of the branch of Orleans are divided between the partisans of an authoritative monarchy, gathered around the French Action founded by Charles Maurras, and the partisans of a parliamentary Régime, gathered around the Nouvelle royalist Action of Bertrand Renouvin and Democratic Rassemblement of Jean-Marie Wante.

In a direction much broader, the orleanism is also one of the three “French line traditions” (at the sides of the “Légitimisme” and the “Bonapartisme”) according to the historian Rene Rémond.

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Monarchism

Political movements

" I am well afflicted with what Mister of Orleans, my relative voted my mort" Louis XVI

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