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=The Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom of France=

Determining the king
At the death of the king, his heir is determined by the following:
 * Heredity: he is related to the king by kinship
 * Legitimate birth: bastard children are considered strangers-in-blood from their natural parent, making them ineligible for the succession
 * Primogeniture: he is the king's most senior descendant or collateral relative
 * Masculinity: he is male
 * Male collaterality: he is related to the king in the male line

Protecting the rights

 * Unavailability: no power could remove a prince of the blood from the line of succession to the throne
 * Continuity: at the death of the king, no person may be recognized other than the rightful heir. Anyone else proclaimed as king will be not be deemed legitimate in the face of history.

Recognition

 * Catholicity: since the rightful heir is already determined from the very start, this requirement is merely a formality, so that the ties between France and its special place in the Catholic Church would not be broken

Heredity

 * Louis VI was the first Capetian to succeeded to the throne without being crowned in his father's lifetime
 * Philip II Augustus was the last king to be crowned in his father's lifetime
 * François Hotman had argued in his Francogallia that France was once a free country, whose liberties had been eroded over time, including the right to elect kings. Hotman had asserted the right of the Estates-General to perform this function. Though Hotman was Protestant, the Catholic League advocated for this during the Wars of Religion against Henry of Navarre.

Legitimate birth

 * Charles VI attempted to disinherit his son Charles by declaring him illegitimate
 * Louis XI refused to recognize the marriage of Louis, prince-bishop of Liege. His descendants, the House of Bourbon-Busset, were deemed illegitimate

Masculinity

 * Isabella Clara Eugenia

Male collaterality

 * Philip II, Count of Auvergne
 * Charles, Duke of Guise
 * Jean Boucher argued that Henry of Navarre, being a cousin in the male line only to the twenty-first degree of Henry III, should no longer be considered as king, since consanguinity was acknowledged only to the tenth degree in law.

Continuity

 * Louis XVII

Catholicity
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