Bourbonism
noun
adherence to the ideas and system of government practiced by the Bourbons.
Bourbonist
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a word derived from
Bourbonism.
Example Sentences
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Amongst the French themselves there were two parties always ready to distribute to each other "des coups d'epees"—the officers of Napoleon's army and the Bourbonist officers of the Garde du Corps.
From Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by R. H. (Rees Howell) Gronow
Bourbonist, bōōr′bun-ist, n. an adherent of the Bourbons, the old French royal dynasty.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Hence Garnier Pagés, the Democrat, and Viscount Chateaubriand, the Bourbonist, found themselves arrested as accomplices in the same rebellion.
From Louis Philippe Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
But sometimes it seems put on, sometimes they really do not know from having been only lately put there, but this man was a genuine Bourbonist and a genuine Frenchman.
From Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) by Edward Stanley
No man in the world could have been more Bourbonist, more Bonapartist, more absolutist, more liberal, more atheistical, or more devoutly catholic.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
