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Book SynopsisTraditionally, the legitimists of early Third Republican Prance have been dismissed as historical anachronisms. To arrive at a fuller understanding of these men, Robert R. Locke has used French public archives, libraries, and previously ignored private sources to investigate the divine right monarchists and the nature of their protest.
Professor Locke concentrates on two hundred legitimists in the National Assembly of 1871. He identifies the legitimists socially and occupationally, and evaluates their response to such problems of modernization as industrialization, urbanization, bureaucratization. and democratization. The author analyzes legitimist ideas within the context of the immediate historical situation, and contrasts the social-economic background and mentality of the legitimists with that of other French and European monarchists.
Far from being anachronisms, the legitimists of Professor Locke''s study emerge as men of diverse social-economic origins who freq
Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*Chapter One. THE LEGITIMISTS IN 1871: A PROBLEM IN IDENTIFICATION, pg. 10*Chapter Two. THE LEGITIMISTS: SOCIAL BACKGROUND, pg. 54*Chapter Three. THE LEGITIMISTS: ECONOMIC BACKGROUND, pg. 98*Chapter Four. THE SOCIOLOGY OF MORAL ORDER, pg. 140*Chapter Five. AGAINST THE GRAIN, pg. 181*Chapter Six. THE ELECTORAL DEFEAT OF 1876, pg. 224*Chapter Seven. CONCLUSION, pg. 262*APPENDIX, pg. 271*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 278*INDEX, pg. 309
