Doctrinaire
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Doctrinals
Doctrinaires |
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|---|---|
| Leader | Pierre Paul Royer-Collard |
| Founded | July 8, 1815 |
| Dissolved | 1831 |
| Succeeded by |
Resistance Party Movement Party |
| Newspaper | Le Censeur |
| Ideology |
Chartism Classical liberalism Orléanism (minority) |
| Political position | Centre |
The Doctrinals (French: Doctrinaires) was the name given during the Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830) to the group of French Royalists who hoped to reconcile the Monarchy with the Revolution, and power with liberty. Headed by Royer-Collard, these liberal royalists were in favor of a constitutional monarchy but with a heavily restricted census suffrage — Louis XVIII, who had been restored to the throne, had granted a Charter to the French with a Chamber of Peers and a Chamber of deputies elected under tight electoral laws (only around 100,000 Frenchmen had at the time the right to vote).
The Doctrinaires first obtained in 1816 the co-operation of Louis XVIII, who had been frightened by the violence of the Ultra-royalists in the Chambre introuvable of 1815. The Ultras, however, quickly came back to government, headed by the comte de Villèle. The Doctrinaires were then in the opposition, although they remained quite close to the government, especially to Decazes who assumed some governmental offices. Closer to a reflexion circle than to a political party, the Doctrinaires were opposed on their left by the Republicans and the "Utopian Socialists" (as they were later called by Marx) and on their right by the Ultras.
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