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(historical) A French royalist who believes that the King of France and Navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the Salic law..
Nor does he beat around the bush: Tocqueville’s cousin and confidant Louis de Kergorlay is “a young idiot” and the legitimist insurrectionist the Duchesse de Berry “one of the silliest princesses in all European history.”
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Legitimist means (historical) A French royalist who believes that the King of France and Navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the Salic law..
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Nor does he beat around the bush: Tocqueville’s cousin and confidant Louis de Kergorlay is “a young idiot” and the legitimist insurrectionist the Duchesse de Berry “one of the silliest princesses in all European history.”
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