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He’s a pretender to a defunct throne. There are a few of these types running around, such as for the Hapsburg and French thrones, but generally everyone thinks
by ashtonkem 5y ago
He’s a pretender to a defunct throne. There are a few of these types running around, such as for the Hapsburg and French thrones, but generally everyone thinks they’re a bunch of weirdo has-beens.
The Bourbon pretender is hilarious though, because he inherited his ancestor’s complete inability to read the room.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> He’s a pretended to a defunct throne. The designated heir to the pretender, etc. And not even the most accepted pretender among those who think the lineage of that throne means something, but he is the only one actively seeking restoration after 110 years of the throne being defunct.
- gerikson 5y ago"The Bourbons have learned nothing and forgotten nothing" - Talleyrand. My favorite tit-bit from 19th century French history is that the Count of Chambord had a legit shot at becoming Henry V of France but blew it because he insisted (among other things) that the white flag of Bourbon France replace the tricolor.
- ashtonkem 5y agoHonestly, one has to wonder if there’s a Bourbon tradition of concussing every child in the moments after birth. It’s practically the only thing that would explain why they’ve been so consistently tone deaf and incompetent since Louis XIV.
- Bayart 5y agoThat's not what happened, but that's what the Republican news media at the time pretended had happen.
- gerikson 5y agoWell, that's kind of the point, isn't it? Louis Philippe realized that the way forward for the monarchy was to restyle himself as King of the French (implicitly including the nation itself into the monarchy). Napoleon III was a monarch who appealed to the populace for his support. To try to turn back time to a absolute monarchy as of 1815, even in as small a matter as the flag, was indicative of being utterly out of touch.