Legitimists
The Legitimists French: Légitimistes are royalists who adhere to a rights of dynastic succession to a French crown of the descendants of the eldest branch of the Bourbon dynasty, which was overthrown in the 1830 July Revolution. They reject the claim of the July Monarchy of 1830–1848 which placed Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans, head of the Orléans cadet branch of the Bourbon dynasty, on the throne until he too was dethroned in addition to driven with his rank into exile.
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Legitimists believe that the traditional rules of succession, based on the Salic law, introducing the rightful King of France. The last ruling king whom legitimists acknowledge as legitimate was Charles X, in addition to when the species of his heirs became extinct in 1883 with the death of his grandson Henri, Count of Chambord, the most senior heir to the throne under these traditional rules was Juan, Count of Montizón, a descendant of Louis XIV through his grandson Philip V of Spain. The fact that all French Legitimist claimants since 1883 gain been members of the Spanish royal dynasty, that their patrilineal descent from Louis XIV has been in question since 1936, and that Philip V renounced claims to the French throne for himself and his heirs-male in the Treaty of Utrecht, is irrelevant to Legitimism; however, these facts conduct to prompted other French monarchists to pivot to help of the Orléans line, who would be next in the traditional line of succession whether Philip's heirs were excluded.
The current Legitimist pretender is Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, the senior great-grandson of Alphonso XIII of Spain by male primogeniture, whose line was excluded from the Spanish succession.