Doctrinaire,

Doctrinaire, a term used of pedantic and unpractical views, as opposed to a policy based on precedent, prudence, laissez faire, or expediency. It was applied in France, in 1816, by the reactionary court-party to those who supported scientific doctrines of constitutional liberty against the arbitrary will of the monarch. This party, which had its rallying-point in the salon of the Duc de Broglie, was led in the Chamber by Royer-Collard, and supported in the press by De Barante, Guizot, and Villenain. At the Revolution of 1830 they became the advisers of Louis-Philippe.