Bernard Rulof is Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

1. Introduction

2. Disputing Space and Citizenship: Popular Legitimism in 1848

3. 'Individuals without cohesion among themselves'? Or, the Making of a Movement

4. Legitimist Electoral Politics, 1830-1851

5. "How Have We Let the Flag of Order (...) Slip Out of Our Hands?" Legitimism on the Defence, 1852-1883

6. A City of Inequalities

7. The Legitimist Movement

8. Imagining the Bon Roi

9. Writing Legitimism: The Local Press

10. From Pleasure to Supervision: Legitimist Sociability

11. Conclusion