French kings
Louis and predecessors
French kings is a plural noun referring to the monarchs who ruled France, from the early medieval Frankish kingdoms through the end of the monarchy in the 19th century.
The phrase appears in historical discussions: The French kings built Versailles as a symbol of absolute power.
It sometimes serves as shorthand for royal excess or centralized authority.
- VersaillesFrench royal palace complex
- ValoisFrench royal dynasty
- Hundred Years' WarMedieval English-French succession struggle
- monarchyRule by crowned sovereign
- absolutismUnrestricted governmental authority
divine right · ancien régime · fleur-de-lis · Treaty of Verdun · Merovingian · Louvre · Île de la Cité · dauphin · feudalism · Bourbon · Estates-General · coronation · Edict of Nantes · Orléans · Charlemagne · Carolingian · regency · chansons de geste
- French MonarchyBourbon, Valois, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI
- Loire ValleyLoire Valley, chateaux, Sancerre, wine tours, Loire River
French kingsFrench presidents
Heads of French state
French Republic · Napoleon Bonaparte · Napoleon III · Charles de Gaulle
French, kings, France, Frenchman, Frenchmen, Frenchwoman, Frenchwomen, king, kingly