Ultra-royalist
Ultra-royalists Ultraroyalistes | |
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| Leader | Joseph de Villèle and Charles X |
| Founded | 1815 |
| Dissolved | 1830 |
| Succeeded by | Legitimists |
| Newspaper | La Gazette La Quotidienne Le Conservateur |
| Ideology | Monarchism Reactionarism Ultramontanism Conservatism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Religion | Catholic Church |
| Chamber of Deputies (1824) | 413 / 430 |
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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.
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.