Category:Pretenders to the French throne

Monarchy, in the form of a king or emperor, has been abolished and restored in France several times, beginning with the French First Republic formed in 1792 during French Revolution, and concluding with end of the Second French Empire and the formation of the French Third Republic in 1870. This has resulted in numerous pretenders to the throne of France. The current government of France is the French Fifth Republic.

This category includes all the claimants to the French throne, either as rival claimants during the time that France was still a monarchy, or claimants for the restoration of the monarchy.


 * during the monarchy as rival claimants to the reigning monarch:
 * pretenders to the throne of the kingdom of France
 * of the royal line (kings of England) (1340–1802)
 * of the Jacobite line (Jacobitism) (from 1689 until today)
 * after the revolution as principal claimants to the restoration of the monarchy:
 * pretenders to the throne of the French empire (Bonapartists)
 * of the Prince Napoléon Line (1815–1852 and from 1870 until today)
 * of the Prince Canino Line (1846–1924)
 * pretenders to the throne of the kingdom of France (Legitimists) (1789–1815 and from 1830 until today)
 * pretenders to the throne of the king of the French (Orléanists) (from 1848 until today)