And then, after the last Bonaparte Emperor, Napoleon III, was overthrown in 1870, a royalist majority was elected to the National Assembly of the newly found French third republic.
In a remarkable feat of leadership, MacGregor led his men on a march right through Royalist territory, executing innumerable brilliant maneuvers to keep the enemy at bay.
This frenzy of royalist prosecutions is driven by fear of growing anti-monarchy sentiment among supporters of the government which was deposed by the coup.
And closer to home, not only were there the royalists, people who had previously supported the French royal family, but also those who believed that Napoleon's ambitions were leading the country in a dangerous direction.
Monsieur Lepitre, who was fanatically attached to the Bourbons, had had relations with my father at the time when all devoted royalists were endeavoring to bring about the escape of Marie Antoinette from the Temple.
In fact, he was very much of what we might call a " royalist" – someone who loved the British monarchy, someone who loved England and wanted the colonies to stay connected to England.
With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the " Marie Caroline, " a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
When the Puritans were in power, the popular party, with a zeal which rivaled that of the crown, sought, in turn, to silence royalist and clerical writers by a vigorous censorship.