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Example sentences for "legitimist"

Lexicographically close words:
legitimation; legitimatized; legitime; legitimise; legitimised; legitimize; legitimized; legitimo; legless; leglets
  1. Unfortunately, I knew the source whence the notes came, and I was afraid that they would give a Legitimist tone to the book.

  2. From there, he returned to Lyons by Angers, where he was very warmly welcomed into a Legitimist household, which offered him so safe a retreat that he decided to prolong his stay there.

  3. Bourmont recommended Deutz to her as a wise and reliable man, who might be useful to her on her journey; he was, besides, devoted body and soul to the Legitimist cause and to religion.

  4. Briffault, has even had the misfortune of being wounded by a so-called Legitimist whose right he had recognised of taking up the cause on behalf of the prisoner of Blaye.

  5. The ladies of the house were very devoted and very inquisitive, having been told he was one of the leaders of the Legitimist party, but they did not know he was M.

  6. On 9 June I read in a Legitimist newspaper that I had been taken with arms upon me in the affair at the Cloître Saint-Merry, judged by court-martial during the night and shot at three in the morning.

  7. We added that we were prepared even to accept the ill-will of the Legitimist party on this head.

  8. Throughout the night the town was thronged with Legitimist gatherings, carrying the white standard, and shouting, "Vive Henri V.

  9. They were, however, legitimist in politics to the backbone.

  10. While living there, she received her Bonapartist friends as well as her Legitimist friends.

  11. The secret object that her husband was pursuing excited her far more than the Legitimist intrigues of Monsieur de Carnavant had ever done.

  12. The mayor, Monsieur Garconnet, was a Legitimist whose nomination had been procured by the influence of the Saint-Marc quarter in 1849.

  13. Of petty "gown" nobility, originally a Legitimist but now supporting Orleanism, he believed himself to be the one man of wisdom and logic in that salon, where he was very proud to meet the Marquis.

  14. However, like the ex-Legitimist and Bonapartist that he was, he had really come for the pleasure of feasting his eyes on the shameful spectacle of parliamentary ignominy.

  15. Dupanloup, who was at that time Legitimist and Ultramontane.

  16. A thorough-paced Legitimist would not even admit the possibility of the Revolution or of Napoleon being mentioned except with a shudder.

  17. The Legitimist party is in a terrible state since the death of General Lamoriciere.

  18. When alone with his servant, I fancy that he talks to him as he would to the most coquettish Orleanist or Legitimist duchess.

  19. Only the staunch support of legitimist claims by England then prevented the Coalition from degenerating into a scramble for Italian territories.

  20. But a perusal of the British Foreign Office Records reveals the reason for the use of these stiffly legitimist claims.

  21. Nevertheless, some effort should have been made by a Government which had so often proclaimed its championship of the legitimist cause.

  22. Legitimist drawing-rooms, where a brilliant host of guests had been wont to gather, were hushed and dark while the dowagers gravely discussed the latest news of the Duchesse de Berry.

  23. Eugène Sue, for instance, till he became impossible, was to be found in many legitimist drawing-rooms.

  24. In spite of the Legitimist risings in La Vendée, labour troubles at Lyons, and disaffection in Paris, Louis Philippe's government was powerful enough to meet all emergencies.

  25. Perhaps it is because he deems the Legitimist interest less formidable to his views than the Orleanist or Buonapartist, that he adopts a different mode of attack, and exchanges ferocity for raillery.

  26. He was a strong opponent of Thiers, and continued to contest constituencies as a legitimist with varying fortunes till his death in 1897.

  27. During the reign of Louis Philippe he adhered to the legitimist policy of his family, but he became reconciled to the government of Napoleon III.

  28. It was therefore to Talleyrand that Countess Ducayla hastened to concert measures with the Bonapartist of yesterday, who had transformed himself into the zealous legitimist of to-day.

  29. But while the senate thus publicly and solemnly proclaimed its legitimist sentiments in the name of the French people, it at the same time testified to its own unworthiness and selfishness.

  30. These legitimist gentlemen entertained themselves chiefly with reflections over the past, and their own grandeur.

  31. One would have thought that the legitimist poet would have arisen from some lonely castle of Brittany, and have borne a name which twenty generations of mediæval heroes had made famous in song.

  32. Truly these establishments, so numerous, are, to a greater or less degree, real branches of the legitimist and Catholic party.

  33. Indeed it did not perceive any essential distinction between the monarchical or legitimist and the national principles; and the error was under the circumstances not unnatural.

  34. We have nothing like that French Legitimist in the States," said the fair American to herself, "unless we should ever be so silly as to make Legitimists of the ruined gentlemen of the South.

  35. I remember one of my first visits to a well-known Legitimist countess in the Faubourg St. Germain; I went on her reception day, a thing all young women are most particular about in Paris.

  36. She warned her Legitimist friends when she knew he was coming (but she didn't always know) and said she never had any trouble or disagreeable scenes.

  37. One night at a party in the Faubourg St. Germain, I saw a well-known fashionable woman of the extreme Legitimist party turn her back on the Comtesse de Paris.

  38. Legitimist tricks were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating him for the Empire.

  39. None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning.

  40. A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about among these the republican affiliations.

  41. They did not suit the Catholic aristocracy, who, though strongly opposed to Spain, remained attached to legitimist principles.

  42. Louis-Philippe, on being made King of the French, adopted the bird standing in this warlike attitude, a circumstance which did not escape the attention of the Legitimist opponents of the bourgeois king.

  43. January 21, and was, according to Legitimist reckoning, succeeded by his young son, Louis XVII.

  44. The old legitimist parties did not the less assail the revolution of 1830 with all the violence which springs from false reasoning.

  45. Various rumors circulated in the procession, legitimist intrigues were talked about, and they spoke about the Duke of Reichstadt, whom God was marking for death at the very moment when the crowd designated him for Emperor.

  46. A legitimist association, the "Knights of Fidelity," agitated among these republican affiliations, but was denounced and repudiated.

  47. After the war of 1870 the electors, who, amid so many disasters, did not know which way to turn, sent a great number of Orleanist and legitimist deputies to the Constituent Assembly.

  48. He had to struggle simultaneously against the legitimist supporters of Henry V.

  49. Among other societies with similar objects in view are the "Thames Valley Legitimist Club" and the "Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland.

  50. British throne according to legitimist principles was to be found among the descendants of Henrietta, daughter of Charles I.

  51. The elections for the new National Assembly were just over, nearly all of the forty-three deputies returned for Paris being Republicans, though throughout the rest of France Legitimist and Orleanist candidates were generally successful.

  52. He was neither a Legitimist nor a Republican.

  53. There was now in France a Legitimist nobility, an Orleanist nobility, and a nobility which owed its origin to the creations of Napoleon I.

  54. The Revolution of 1830 brought better days, though the Legitimist party, defeated in the public street, had still the majority in all the academies.

  55. Like the Alien Act of the preceding session, the Bill was considered as a proof of that legitimist and absolute tendency of which the Government was accused.


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