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absolutist

Member of a Spanish political party opposed to the constitution of 1812. The absolutists wished to restore to the Crown its former absolute powers. Subsequently they supported the pretensions of Don Carlos against Queen Isabella. See also Carlist.
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= this paragraph refers to controversies, before the French "July Revolution" of 1830, between rightist ("cote droit" = right side) legitimists, who read the official "Moniteur" newspaper and supported the absolutist Bourbon monarchy of King Charles X, and leftist ("cote gauche" = left side) liberals, who read "Le Temps" and argued for reform or revolution; "nothing good could come of Nazareth" = from the Bible, John, I, 46: "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth"}
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