DOCTRINAIRE, tlAk'tr.'•ettar' ( Fr_ theorist, from Lat. doe!rino, doctrine I. .\ term used to designate one who is all zolv000te of principles rather than of practical schemes in government and politics. After the first restoration of the Bourbons, in 1815. the term came to applied in France to a portion of the Parliamentary Op position which urged the adoption of a 111;111 of government somewhat similar to the English sys tem of a !United monarchy with Parliamentary control. For these views they were ridiculed by 'Republicans and Monarchists and called dor• :Aliinier, Lall•-Tollentlai. Clermont Tonnerre, Talleyrand, and the Abbc• Alontesipliou were the true fathers of the party. They had their rallying-point in the salons of the Duke de Broglie. and were led in the Chamber by Royer ('ollard and supported in the press by Oui zot, Villemain, Barante. and the younger mem bers • of What afterwards became the party. The development of the ('ons) itut ion on the basis of the eharte of Louis NV111. was their
watchword, hot their real inspiration was l'iVC(1 from England. Whi•it the Revolution of 1830 occurred, they became the advisers and min isters of Louis Philippe, and were more deeply imbued with the principles of eonstitutional monarchy than ally other polit ion) party that has ever existed in France. The Revolution of 1844 did away with the doll Hun ns a pont ieal party exerting an iniluenets on the Ilovernment. and the term ceased to he used save historieally or in an abstract .rus•. : Thureau-Dangin.
purti 1111#'011 souse 1#1 Pcsimirett ion Iti; tip, and the Memoirs of thrizot (2 vols., Paris, 1838. fist, Barante (Paris, 1'89))), and Duke de Broglie I Park, 'There is an English transla tion of Otlizot's under the title of 1/cmoirs to Illustnile the Ms tory of lfy Time (4 vols., Loudon.