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France's last royal pretenders kept alive by exile and politics
In Paris 1985 aging Count of Paris Henri d Orléans leads a network of monarchists while a Bordeaux wedding of Prince Henri’s son stirs dynastic disputes. The Legitimists back Alfonso. Louis-Napoleon remains a distant claimant as monarchism persists amid a republic.
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Paris
France
Napoleon
House of France
Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis-Philippe d'Orleans
Bertrand Renouvin
Bordeaux
Henri
Clermont
Micaela Cousino Quinones de Leon
Dauphin
Jean
Guy Coutant de Saisseval
Legi Umists
House of Bourbon
Louis Philippe
House of Bourbon- Orleans
An Orleans
Juan Carlos
Louis-Napoleon
Napoleon III
Coutant
Renouvin
la Nouvelle Action Royaliste
NAR
Fort
Francois Mitterrand
Count of
North
Africa
Spain
Lewis-Napoleon
Foreign Legion
Algeria
Aspects de la France
Action