Traditionally, 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.
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