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Legitimist flag bearing the great arms of the Legitimist pretender to the crown of France since 1962. The Legitimists (French: Légitimistes) are royalists who adhere to the rights of dynastic succession to the French crown of the descendants of the eldest branch of the Bourbon dynasty, which was overthrown in the 1830 July Revolution. [1]
Legitimist, in 19th-century France, any of the royalists who from 1830 onward supported the claims of the representative of the senior line of the house of Bourbon to be the legitimate king of France.
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Nov 20, 2016 · The Legitimist party considers, as expected, the plain white flag as the sole French national flag. Remember that Louis-Philippe accepted the Tricolor flag and that Chambord renunciated because he refused to drop Henry IV's white flag for the Tricolor flag.
Hervé Pinoteau, 6th Baron Pinoteau, was a French historian, heraldic expert, and royalist in support of the Legitimist French monarchists, who support a restored monarchy under the House of Bourbon, rather than the House of Orleans or the House of Bonaparte. The flag comprises of a ring of fleur-de-lys on a white banner, the same color scheme ...
A proposed flag of France, possible design by Henri d'Artois, comte de Chambord. ca. 2010: Proposal by Hervé, Baron Pinoteau for the flag of a restored Kingdom of France under legitimist Bourbon branch.
DatePartyDescription1880–presentThe Presidential and Prime Minister ...A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and ...1880–presentThe Presidential and Prime Minister ...A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and ...1887–1894Presidential standard of Sadi CarnotA vertical tricolour of blue, white, and ...1894–1895Presidential standard of Jean ...A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and ...Flag of France, vertically striped blue-white-red national flag. Blue and red are the traditional colors of Paris, while white is associated with the House of Bourbon. The flag was seen to embody all the principles of the Revolution: liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, secularism, and modernization.
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It was made clear that his right to rule came from the people and was not divinely granted. He also revived the tricolore as the flag of France in place of the white Bourbon flag that had been used since 1815, an important distinction because the tricolore was the symbol of the revolution. Charles X (1824–1830)
