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| | The Succession to the French throne |
 | | France, which emerged as a fragment of Charlemagne's empire in the 9th century, was a monarchy until September 22, 1792, ruled from 987 by Hughes "Capet" and his male-line descendants (from 1589, the Bourbons). |
 | | The Charter of 1814, which served as constitution for the restored monarchy (and the "July monarchy" of Louis-Philippe until 1848), did not specify the succession law. |
 | | Legitimism, by and large, remained a party strongly tied to nostalgia for pre-1789 France, attached to central authority, tradition, the Catholic church, the supremacy of a God-given dynasty, and distrust for democracy. |
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