It's very hard to define «Right Wing» today, especially since most people referred to as «Right Wing» today not only have nothing in common with the historical origin of the term (
French Monarchists after French Revolution), but don't have much common politically with each other aside from opposing some or all of the policies labeled «Left Wing», and even that for a wide variety of reasons.
He also considers the more familiar names — reactionaries such as Joseph de Maistre and Louis de Bonald, eminent
monarchists such as... Malesherbes and... Chateaubriand, as well as the stalwarts of nineteenth - century
French liberalism Benjamin Constant and François Guizot.