"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 overยญ 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 organยญ izations which continued to advocate, and sought to bring about a return to the monarchy under the Third and Fourth Republies
CONTENT
I The Missed Opportunity 1871โ{128}{147}1873 -- II The โ{128}{152}Unhappy Reignโ{128}{153} of โ{128}{152}Philippe VIIโ{128}{153} 1883โ{128}{147}1894 -- III The Beginnings of the Action Franรงaise Charles Maurras -- IV The Action Franรงaise Militant 1906โ{128}{147}1914 -- V The Action Franรงaise Between the Wars 1919โ{128}{147}1934 -- VI The Comte de Paris and the Action Franรงaise 1934โ{128}{147}1937 -- VII The Comte de Paris Doctrines and Politics to 1939 -- VIII The Royalist Movement on the Eve of World War II -- IX World War II -- X The Aftermath 1945โ{128}{147}1950 -- XI Maurrassians, The Comte de Paris, and the Fourth Republic -- XII Conclusion -- Genealogical Table
