Kings and one emperor of France from the Carolingian and Capetian founders, Charlemagne's own line and Hugh Capet, through the Valois and Bourbon dynasties to Louis XVI and the revolutionary and Napoleonic aftermath that ended the old French monarchy. The group includes rulers of France's medieval component duchies and counties recorded here under French royal history, such as Eleanor of Aquitaine, as distinct from the Angevin kings of England, who are grouped under England and Britain even where their own continental holdings, Normandy and Aquitaine among them, were technically French fiefs. A ruler's own French crown, regency or principal French title is the qualifying fact.
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1. Wikipedia: Clovis I
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Clovis succeeded his father, Childeric I, as a king of the Salian Franks in 481, and eventually came to rule an area extending from what is now the southern Netherlands to northern France.
2. Wikipedia: French First Republic
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On 21 September 1792, the deputies of the Convention, gathered for the first time, unanimously decided the abolition of the constitutional monarchy in France.
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