French Royalism under the Third and Fourth Republics

✍ Scribed by Samuel M. Osgood (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1960
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Let them come forward, they are thirsty for the sight of a King," said Henri IV to his followers who were trying to push back the curious crowds as he entered Paris in February, I594. It is perhaps to be regretted that seven kings (to say nothing of two emperors) have since more than quenched the French's taste for royalty, because they have long been in need of - and periodically have sought - a symbol of national unity. Modern-day France has had far more than her share of revolutions, counterrevolutions, uprisings, days, coups, affairs, crises, scandals - and constitution drafting. While it would be an over­ simplification to interpret this endemie strife as a seesaw conflict between two well-integrated blocs with the ideology of the Great Revolution as the dividing issue, the fact remains that since I789 political divisions and quarrels among Frenchmen have been deep, bitter, and fundamental. may have been the one solution which After I870, a Republic divided Frenchmen the least (to borrow an expression from Monsieur Thiers); but like any and all of the preceding alternatives it was to incur the relentless, irreconcilable opposition of important segments of the population. This study deals with those individuals and organ­ izations which continued to advocate, and sought to bring about a return to the monarchy under the Third and Fourth Republies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
The Missed Opportunity 1871–1873....Pages 1-34
The Unhappy ‘Reign’ of ‘Philippe VII’ 1883–1894....Pages 35-53
Charles Maurras: The Beginnings of the Action Française....Pages 54-75
The Action Française Militant 1906–1914....Pages 76-97
The Action Française between the Wars 1919–1934....Pages 98-123
The Comte de Paris and the Action Française 1934–1937....Pages 124-136
The Comte de Paris: Doctrines and Politics to 1939....Pages 137-151
The Royalist Movement on the Eve of World War II....Pages 152-159
World War II....Pages 160-181
The Aftermath 1945–1950....Pages 182-196
Maurrassians, the Comte de Paris, and the Fourth Republic 1950–1958....Pages 197-210
Conclusion....Pages 211-213
Back Matter....Pages 214-232

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences, general