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French Ultra-royalists

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François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)

Charles X of France

King of France and of Navarre from 1824 to 1830 (1757–1836)

Joseph de Maistre

Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat (1753-1821)

Louis de Bonald

French philosopher (1754-1840)

Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry

Member of the French royal family (1778–1820)

Prince Jules de Polignac, 3rd Duke of Polignac

French politician (1780-1847)

Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé

French noble (1736-1818)

Henri de la Rochejaquelein

French officer (1772–1794)

Jacques Cathelineau

Insurrection leader during the French Revolution (1759-1793)

Jean-Baptiste de Villèle

Plantation and slave owner, Prime Minister of France (1773-1854)

Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc

French count (1756–1845)

The Ultra-royalists (, collectively Ultras) were a French political faction from 1815 to 1830 under the Bourbon Restoration. An Ultra was usually a member of the nobility of high society who strongly supported Catholicism as the state and only legal religion of France, the Bourbon monarchy, traditional hierarchy between classes and census suffrage (privileged voting rights), while rejecting the political philosophy of popular will and the interests of the bourgeoisie along with their liberal and democratic tendencies.

Mathieu de Montmorency

French statesman

Joseph Foullon de Doué

18th-century French politician

Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas

French noble, antiquarian and diplomat (1771-1839)

Pierre-Denis, comte de Peyronnet

French politician

Eugène François d'Arnauld

French public official (1774-1854)

Ferdinand de Bertier de Sauvigny

French politician (1782-1864)