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Does france have a king?

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  1. Huh?


  2. Louis the Bourbon King, came over here to the UK a long time ago. When France decided to have a President instead. Like the USA. The USA helped France to do it. France helped the USA to fight the English. Now the USA and France aren't such good friends.  You can read about it in history books. Check out your local library. It's an interesting story. A bit gory though.

  3. No, they have a republic

  4. They did once but they lost their head in an argument.

  5. Louis got his head chopped many years ago and now President Sarkozy is the head of the country.

  6. Definitely not. Our last king was deposed in 1848, the last king with any shred of legitimacy being ousted in 1830.

    There are no legitimate claimants to the title left either. The   "official" pretender being from a line that is both junior and invalid due to crimes of lese majesty, and the "legitimist" favorite is from the line of Bourbon-Spain, which relinquished any possible claims to the French crown when they took the Spanish one.

  7. Yes, only a "pretender" King. A pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else. The English word pretend comes from the French word prétendre, meaning "to put forward, to profess or claim". The term pretender is also applied to those persons on whose behalf a claim to a throne is advanced, regardless of whether that person himself actually makes an active claim.

    There are currently three "pretenders" to the French throne.

    1. Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou (born in 1974) is considered to be the head of the French Royal House by legitimists who consider the renunciation of Philip V of Spain as invalid. They call him Prince Louis de Bourbon, and accord him the title duc d'Anjou (Duke of Anjou). As king, he would be Louis XX of France.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Alpho...

    2. Prince Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d'Orléans, comte de Paris, duc de France (born June 14, 1933) is a claimant to the French throne. If he were king, he would be Henry VII. For the Orléanists, he is the heir of Louis-Philippe, King of the French; for unionists, the heir of Henri, comte de Chambord, and so of Charles X, King of France. He is also the 76th in the Legitimist line of succession to the French throne.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri,_comt...

    3. Napoléon VII, Prince Imperial (Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Napoléon) (born 19 October 1950) is a French politician, and claims to be the current head of the Imperial House of France as male heir to the rights and legacy established by his great-great-grand-uncle, Emperor Napoléon I.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nap...

    Note: As a "pretender" King they are only recognized as heads of the "French Royal House" or a certain branch, however, they are not recognized nationwide, or do they have "authorized power" granted by the French government as in a constitutional monarchy.

  8. No it's a republic, (very sensible).

  9. no not since the french revolution which they got rid of all their aristrocracy. mainly by gullotine they live in a republic which has a president.

  10. Not any more - remember the revolutions? (Not first hand, obviously)

  11. No, France is a republic.There are royals who are in line of succession to the would-be-throne,but France has a presidency,now,and doesn't want a return to the monarchy.

  12. France is a modern, grown up country that has an elected Head of State. Their President is currently visiting a backward looking country that is still seems to think that having a non-elected Head of State is a good idea.

  13. No they have a president.

    They beheaded their king and queen, I think that was in the late 1700

  14. Actually, they had many kings and emperors after the French Revolution. Monarchy stopped in France after the 1870's with Napoleon III. He might have been the last Emperor, which might not really count as a king, but the last king was Henry-Phillipe, the Citizen King whose rule ended in 1848, nearly 50 years after the French Revolution.

    Today, we have no Kings in France, because France now has demoncracy. Nicholas Sarkozy is the current president of the French Republic. But however, England still lives in monarchy with Her Majesty, Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith...and yes, that's the whole title!

  15. No

  16. No, the French royal family ceased to exist after the French Revolution!

  17. They used to, but it went to his head.

  18. No - not anymore.  The monarchs of France ruled, first as kings and later as emperors (Bonapartes only), from the Middle Ages to 1870.

    However, some guys from competing lineages say they have a legitimate claim to the throne if the monarchy was ever re-established.

  19. No, we have a Président de la République who is at present visiting your Queen.

  20. They have Burger King

    But they dont have french fries. They're just called fries over there. (come on thats worth a thumbs up)
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