Ultra-royalist
Sign in to saveThe 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.
Key facts
- Political party.name
- Ultra-royalists
- Political party.native_name
- Ultraroyalistes
- Political party.leader
- Joseph de VillèleCharles X
- Political party.successor
- Legitimists
- Political party.newspaper
- La GazetteLa QuotidienneLe Conservateur
- Political party.ideology
- MonarchismReactionarismUltramontanismConservatism
- Political party.position
- Right-wing
- Political party.religion
- Catholicism
- Political party.seats1_title
- Chamber ofDeputies (1824)
- Political party.country
- France
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Second White Terror
- Bourbon Restoration
- Legitimists, the successor of the Ultras
- Notable members
- Electoral results
- See also
- References
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.
The Legitimists, another of the main right-wing factions identified in René Rémond's Les Droites en France, were disparagingly classified with the Ultras after the 1830 July Revolution by the victors, the Orléanists, who deposed the Bourbon dynasty for the more liberal king Louis Philippe.
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