List of French monarchs

The family tree of Frankish and French monarchs (509–1870)

France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions.

Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I, king of the Franks (r. 507–511), as the first king of France. However, historians today consider that such a kingdom did not begin until the establishment of West Francia, during the dissolution of the Carolingian Empire in the 800s.[1][2]

  1. ^ Guyotjeannin, Olivier, ed. (1996). Clovis chez les historiens (in French). Librairie Droz. pp. 241ff. ISBN 9782600055925.
  2. ^ Sewell, Elizabeth Missing (1876). Popular History of France. Longman. pp. 48–49.

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