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==History== | ==History== | ||
During the [[French Revolution]], royalists were a faction striving for the retention of the French monarchy in opposition to the goals of the revolutionaries to overthrow it for a republic.<ref name="ACU">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''</ref> Like the revolutionaries, they varied in the intensity of their convictions, ranging from the [[extremists|extremist]] [[François-Joseph Carbon]], who sought to assassinate [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] with a [[Infernal Machine|public bombing]],<ref name="The Infernal Machine">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''</ref> to [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette]], a hero of the [[American Revolution]] who believed in a constitutional monarchy.<ref name="Database: Marquis de Lafayette">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' – [[Database: Marquis de Lafayette]]</ref> | During the [[French Revolution]], royalists were a faction striving for the retention of the French monarchy in opposition to the goals of the revolutionaries to overthrow it for a republic.<ref name="ACU">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''</ref> Like the revolutionaries, they varied in the intensity of their convictions, ranging from the [[extremists|extremist]] [[François-Joseph Carbon]], who sought to assassinate [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] with a [[Infernal Machine|public bombing]],<ref name="The Infernal Machine">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''</ref> to [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette]], a hero of the [[American Revolution]] who believed in a constitutional monarchy.<ref name="Database: Marquis de Lafayette">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' – [[Database: Marquis de Lafayette]]</ref> | ||
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*[[Loyalists]] | |||
==Appearance== | ==Appearance== | ||
Revision as of 17:37, 15 November 2018
A royalist is a supporter of a particular individual as monarch of a state. The term is closely related to but distinct from a monarchist, who advocates for a monarchical style of government but not necessarily the reign of a particular monarch. Nonetheless, the two are often intertwined.
History
During the French Revolution, royalists were a faction striving for the retention of the French monarchy in opposition to the goals of the revolutionaries to overthrow it for a republic.[1] Like the revolutionaries, they varied in the intensity of their convictions, ranging from the extremist François-Joseph Carbon, who sought to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte with a public bombing,[2] to Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the American Revolution who believed in a constitutional monarchy.[3]
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