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To: ops33

Close, but no cigar. There are two pretenders to the French throne.

Jean de France is the Orleans descendant. The Bourbon descendant lives in Spain.

Prince Jean Carl Pierre Marie d’Orléans, Dauphin de France and Duc de Vendôme was born in Paris on 19 May 1965 the son of Henri, comte de Paris, duc de France, the Orléanist pretender to the French throne, and Duchess Marie-Thérèse of Württemberg.

He is in the line of succession to the French throne. He was created Duc de Vendôme on 27 September 1987 and Dauphin du Viennois on 19 June 1999. He was created Dauphin de France in 2006, bypassing his mentally disabled elder brother, François, comte de Clermont, according to the website of the Orléanist French royal family.


24 posted on 05/03/2009 3:50:06 PM PDT by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
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To: Cincinna

Who grants titles of nobility in France these days?


25 posted on 05/03/2009 3:52:51 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Cincinna

I am voting for Prince Henri of Luxembourg of the House of Bourbon-Parma. I am right. You will see, LOL :-)

Thanks for the ping!


29 posted on 05/03/2009 4:04:53 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah (new resident of Grassy Knoll Resort and Day Spa)
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To: Cincinna

Well, according to Wikipedia (yeah, I know) there is a Bonapartist pretender to the French throne. He is Charles Napoleon, styled Napoleon VII, Prince Imperial.

Not that it really makes any difference.


43 posted on 05/03/2009 4:47:53 PM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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