In the history of France, the period from 1789 to 1914, dubbed the "long 19th century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm, extends from the French Revolution to the brink of World War I.
French peasants depicted in Fin du travail (1887)
Wealthy Parisians in an urban café or patisserie, 1889
Storming of the Bastille in 1789
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789
Legitimists
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The Legitimists are royalists who adhere to the rights of dynastic succession to the French crown of the descendants of the eldest branch of the Bourbon dynasty, which was overthrown in the 1830 July
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