Ultra-royalist
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Ultra-royalists
Ultraroyalistes |
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| Leader |
Prince Charles, Count of Artois Jean-Baptiste de Villèle The Count of La Bretèch The Count of Vaublanc The Count of Polignac |
| Founded | July 8, 1815 |
| Dissolved | August 2, 1830 |
| Newspaper |
La Gazette La Quotidienne |
| Ideology |
Arch-conservatism Ultramontanism Anti-liberalism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Colours |
Blue, white (Monarchy's colours) |
An Ultra-royalist (French: Ultraroyaliste, collectively Ultras) was a French political label used from 1815 to 1830 under the Bourbon Restoration. An Ultras was usually a member of the nobility of high society who strongly supported Bourbon's monarchy, traditional hierarchy between class and census suffrage, against popular will and the interests of the bourgeoisie and their liberal and democratic tendencies.
The Legitimists, another of the main right-wing families identified in René Rémond's classic opus Les Droites en France, were disparagingly classified with the Ultras after the 1830 July Revolution by the victors, the Orleanists, who deposed the Bourbon dynasty for the more liberal king Louis-Philippe.
Inaugurating the Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830), a strongly restricted census suffrage elected to the Chamber of Deputies an ultra-royalist majority (la Chambre introuvable) in 1815-1816, and again from 1824 to 1827. Known to be "more royalist than the king" (plus royalistes que le roi), the Ultras were the dominant political faction under Louis XVIII (1815–1824) and Charles X (1824–1830). Opposed to the limitation of the sovereign's power under the constitutional monarchy, they hoped to restore the Ancien Régime and annul the rupture created by the French Revolution. Passionately espousing the ruling ideology of the Restoration, the Ultras opposed liberalism, republicanism, and democracy. While Louis XVIII hoped for a moderate restoration of the Ancien Régime, acceptable to the masses who had participated in the Revolution, the Ultras held rigidly to the dream of an 'integral' restoration. Their power was due in part to electoral laws which largely favored them: on one hand, a Chamber of Peers composed of hereditary members, on the other hand, a Chamber of Deputies elected under a heavily restricted census suffrage of approximately 100,000 voters.
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