There's No Such Thing as a Monarchist

I've been on an early modern French history kick lately, reading The Battle: A New History of Waterloo, Alstair Horne's The Age of Napoleon, and now Paul Johnson's Napoleon: A Life, and Alistair Horne's La Belle France. All this has led me towards a contention -- though I suppose one on a quirky enough topic few will be interest.

It seems to me that there can be no such thing as a "monarchist". An -ist indicates some sort of intentional form of government which one may support establishing or working towards. Yet looking at the various attempts to bring back the ancein regime or something like it, it strikes me that monarchy is not something which can be intentionally established, except as a cultural and political figurehead of sorts. Monarchy must necessarily be an unintentional form of government, and so while one may admire it where one finds it in history, it doesn't seem like something one can be a supporter of establishing. An intentionally established monarchy would not be a monarchy in any sense worth valuing.