Popular Legitimism and the Monarchy in France : Mass Politics without Parties, 1830-1880 / by Bernard Rulof.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rulof, Bernard, author.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy, 2947-5872

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History.

France.

Europe--History--1492-.

Europe.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Social history.

World politics.

History of France.

History of Modern Europe.

Cultural History.

Social History.

Political History.

Local Subjects:

History of France.

History of Modern Europe.

Cultural History.

Social History.

Political History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 350 p. 1 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2020.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Summary:

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. This type of monarchism has often been understood as a form of elitist patronage politics or, alternatively, identified with ultramontane Catholicism. Although historians have offered a more nuanced view in the last few decades, their work, nevertheless, has predominantly focused on legitimist leaders rather than their followers and their professed feelings of loyalty to monarchy and monarch. This book's originality therefore is twofold: firstly as an analysis of popular rather than élite monarchism; and secondly, as a study which portrays this form of royalism as a political movement characteristic of a period which saw the emergence of mass politics, while parties were still non-existent. It not only discusses the social and cultural settings of (popular) monarchism, but also contributes to the history of political parties, citizenship and democracy.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9783030527587

3030527581