Blancs d'Espagne ("Spanish Whites") was a term used to refer to those

legitimist 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 Revolution. They reject the claim of t ...

s in France who, following the death of the Comte de Chambord in 1883, supported the Spanish

Carlist Carlism (; ; ; ) is a Traditionalism (Spain), Traditionalist and Legitimist political movement in Spain aimed at establishing an alternative branch of the Bourbon dynasty, one descended from Infante Carlos María Isidro of Spain, Don Carlos, ...

claimant rather than the Orleanist candidate, who was supported by the vast majority of French royalists. The term was generally used by supporters of the Comte de Paris, the Orleanist candidate, as a term of derision for their ultra-legitimist opponents who so hated the House of Orléans that they would support a foreign prince over an Orleanist candidate. It is a pun on the cosmetic and cleanser known as ''blanc d'Espagne'', originally a

white lead White lead is the basic lead carbonate 2PbCO3·Pb(OH)2. It is a complex Salt (chemistry), salt, containing both carbonate and hydroxide ions. White lead occurs naturally as a mineral, in which context it is known as hydrocerussite, a hydrate of ...

pigment and later either basic bismuth nitrate or a preparation made from

chalk Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor. Ch ...

and clay.''Le Nouveau Petit Robert: Dictionnaire de la langue française.'' Dictionnaires le Robert, Paris, 1993.

Dynastic rationale

Claimants or declared claimants

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Legitimist pretenders to the French throne {{France-poli-stub