![Text Box: René Rémond (born in 1918) is a French historian and political economist. He was the Secretary General of Jeunesses étudiantes catholiques (JEC France in 1943) and the member of the International YCS Center of Documentation and Information in Paris, presently the(International Secretariat of International Young Catholic Students[([1]IYCS).]The author of books on French political, intellectual and religious history, he was elected to the Académie française in 1998.
René Rémond is the author of the famous distinction of right-wing parties and movement into three different currents, each one appeared during a specific phase of French history: legitimism (or counter-revolutionaries), orleanism and bonapartism. Boulangisme, for example, was according to him a type of bonapartism, as well as gaullism. Legitimism refers to the royalists who refused to accept the French Republic during the 19th century (Action Française royalist movement belongs to such a legitimist movement, who, being marginalized during the 20th century, managed however to take back some influence during the Vichy regime. Orleanists refers to economic liberals, and characterize actual conservative parties.
The Académie française, or French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution, it was restored in 1803 by Napoleon Bonaparte. It is the oldest of the five académies of the Institut de France. en.wikipedia.org
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