Ultra-royalist

The Ultra-royalists (French: ultraroyalistes, 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 Roman 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.

Ultra-royalists
Ultraroyalistes
LeaderPrince Charles, Count of Artois
Founded1815 (1815)
Dissolved1830 (1830)
Succeeded byLegitimists
NewspaperLa Gazette
La Quotidienne
Le Conservateur
IdeologyMonarchism
Reactionarism
Ultramontanism
Conservatism
Political positionRight-wing
ReligionRoman Catholicism
Chamber of
Deputies (1824)
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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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