Legitimism

thumb|right|Legitimist flag bearing the great arms of the Legitimist pretender to the crown of France since 1962

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inception: 1814-01-01

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History
Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830)
Legitimists under the July Monarchy (1830–1848)
Legitimists under the Second Republic and the Second Empire (1848–1871)
Legitimists under the Third Republic (1871–1940)
Legitimists under Vichy and after World War II (1940–1989)
Legitimism from 1989 to present, under the pretendence of Louis de Bourbon
Spanish Bourbons
Dynastic arguments
List of Legitimist claimants to the French throne
The succession after Henri, Count of Chambord
House of Orléans
House of Bourbon-Anjou
Electoral results
See also
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thumb|right|Legitimist flag bearing the great arms of the Legitimist pretender to the crown of France since 1962

The Legitimists () are royalists who adhere to the rights of dynastic succession to the French crown of the descendants of the eldest branch of the Bourbon dynasty, which was overthrown in the 1830 July Revolution. They reject the claim of the July Monarchy of 1830–1848 which placed Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans, head of the Orléans cadet branch of the Bourbon dynasty, on the throne until he too was dethroned and driven with his family into exile.