LEGITIMISTS (Fr. legitimistes, from legitime, lawful, legitimate)

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LEGITIMISTS (Fr. legitimistes, from legitime, lawful, legitimate) , the name of the party in France which after the revolution of 183o continued to support the claims of the

elder

line of the

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Bourbon as the legitimate sovereigns " by divine right." The death of the comte de Chambord in 1883 dissolved the parti legitimiste, only an insignificant remnant, known as the Blancs d'Espagne, repudiating the act of renunciation of Philip V. of Spain and upholding the rights of the Bourbons of the line of Anjou. The word legitimiste was not admitted by the

French

Academy

ACADEMY,
GREEK
- GREEK
- GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND
ACADEMY, ROYAL

until 1878; but meanwhile it had spread beyond France, and the

English

ENGLISH

word legitimist is now applied to any supporter of monarchy by hereditary right as against a

parliamentary

PARLIAMENTARY

or other

title

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

.

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