Scrabble?! LEGITIMISTS

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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. They reject the claim of the July Monarchy of 1830–1848 which placed Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans, head of the Orléans cadet branch of the Bourbon dynasty on the throne until he, too, was dethroned and driven, with his family, into exile. Following the movement of Ultra-royalists during the Bourbon Restoration of 1814, legitimists came to form one of the three main right-wing factions in France, which was principally characterized by its counter-revolutionary views. The other two right-wing factions were, according to historian René Rémond, the Orléanists and the Bonapartists.Legitimists hold that the king of France must be chosen according to the traditional rules of succession based on the Salic law. When the direct line of Charles X became extinct in 1883 with the death of his grandson Henri, Count of Chambord, the most senior heir to the throne under these traditional rules was Juan, Count of Montizón, a descendant of Louis XIV through his grandson Philip V of Spain. The fact that all French legitimist claimants since 1883 have been members of the Spanish royal dynasty remains irrelevant to Legitimism, but has prompted other French monarchists to pivot to support of the Orléans line. The current legitimist pretender is Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, the senior grandson of Alphonso XIII of Spain by male primogeniture, whose line was excluded from the Spanish throne by a morganatic marriage.