Vive le Roi! The first in Line to the French Throne Identified - in Bhopal, India

[Louis VI the Fat]

Balthazar Napoleon de Bourbon, a jovial Indian lawyer and part-time farmer, has always been fascinated by France. Framed pictures of the Eiffel Tower and the palace of Versailles implausibly decorate his house in a dusty, bustling suburb of the central Indian city of Bhopal. He gave his children French names even though he has never set foot in France.

But he may soon make his first trip to Paris, after he was visited by a relative of Prince Philip, who told him that he is the first in line to the lost French throne...Le Roi est mort, Vive le Roi! (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2025520,00.html)
The king is dead - long live the king.

It is almost a pity that this guy is a middle-class lawyer. For sheer Hollywoodesque value, it would've been just so fantastic to raise some poor destitute beggar straight from the Calcutta slums to the throne in Versailles .


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[InsaneApache]

You can have Charlie if you want him. :sweatdrop:

[Gregoshi]

Will he have to change his name to Louis?

[AntiochusIII]

Napoleon de Bourbon. :inquisitive:

So is he a God-fearing monarchist or the damn rebel Bonapartist?

[Strike For The South]

I wanna be king of France

[Gregoshi]

You'll need to answer a few questions first SFTS:

1) Do you eat french fries or freedom fries?

2) Complete the following rhyme: "I see Paris, I see France..."


3) "Oui" means what in french?
a) an exclamation of excitement
b) slang for urination
c) the name of the new Nintendo console system
d) "yes"

4) Are you willing to change your name to Louis?

[The Wizard]

I suppose everybody forgot about the House of Bourbon-Parma sitting in Spain in all the excitement ~;)


c) the name of the new Nintendo console system

:laugh4:

[Strike For The South]

You'll need to answer a few questions first SFTS:

1) Do you eat french fries or freedom fries?

2) Complete the following rhyme: "I see Paris, I see France..."



3) "Oui" means what in french?
a) an exclamation of excitement
b) slang for urination
c) the name of the new Nintendo console system
d) "yes"


4) Are you willing to change your name to Louis?

yes

I see Gregs undapants

D

Yes

Is France willing to change there name to TexasII?

[Fisherking]

My only interest in Bourbons come from Bourbon Whiskey and the French have nothing to do with it.

[Gregoshi]

I see Gregs undapants

:laugh4: Good answer!


Is France willing to change there name to TexasII?
The ol' Texas Two Step, eh?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I was really hoping for more information.

In any case:

"The King is Ded, long live King!"

(People are going to look at me so weird when QEII pops her clogs and I do that.)

[Louis VI the Fat]

You can have Charlie if you want him. :sweatdrop:Erm...yes...uh...let me go straight to replying to Gregoshi:


Will he have to change his name to Louis?Why, of course. Things would get awfully confusing if they weren't all called Louis.


I suppose everybody forgot about the House of Bourbon-Parma sitting in Spain in all the excitementYes, but the Bourbon-Parma's are further in line than this Indian claimant. If his ancestry is real, he is first in line.


I was really hoping for more information.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2006/01/10/thumbs/20060109170122.jpeg
According to family accounts, a man named Jean-Philippe de Bourbon Navarre arrived in 1560 at the court of Emperor Akbar, the third king of the Mughal dynasty, which ruled from the early 16th century until the mid 19th century.

"The young adventurer was tall, his bearing gallant," said the writer C.A. Kincaid, in a 1946 issue of The Illustrated Weekly of India.

The 16th-century was a time in India's history when "there were plenty of Europeans of all nationalities roaming about ... trying to make their fortunes in one way or another," notes English history lecturer Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, who has written about the Bourbons.

The family accounts say Jean-Philippe, the hot-blooded son of a duke who was a cousin of King Henry IV, had fled France after killing another French nobleman in a duel. He ended up in Goa on India's southwestern coast after being kidnapped by pirates and escaping their clutches. From there, he made his way to the royal court where he ingratiated himself swiftly.

In the 18th century, descendants of the family moved to the princely realm of Bhopal, now capital of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Louis Rousselet, in India and its Native Princes, first published in French in 1875, describes a visit to the poisoned Balthazar's wife Elizabeth. "I was at once struck by her type, which is evidently European," wrote Rousselet who was "received by a number of armed domestics, who, after having assisted us to dismount from our elephant, conducted us to a large salon."

With the abolition of royal titles and privileges in 1971 in India, the Bourbons lost their royal patrons -- but retain their memories of grander times.
In November, Bourbon finally met a relative from a European branch of the family, Prince Michael of Greece, who lives in France.




Is France willing to change there name to TexasII?No. But once I've overthrown this Indian King and established the sixth Republic, I'll make Texas an overseas department. So you may bask in our glory.

You will be the prefect of Texas, residing permanently at my court administration in Versailles. Where in between our lavish decadent parties we'll discuss cunning plans for the annexation of Mexico.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

France needs a return of the French monarchy like ________.

Fill in as seems best to you.:evilgrin:

[Adrian II]

Napoleon de BourbonAnd they ask if he will have to change his name ??? https://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2249/fourirefw2.gif (https://imageshack.us)

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Thanks Loius.

Oh, and you can't have Charles anyway. I'm looking foward to havoc he will cause.

[Incongruous]

What's wrong with Charles?

I doubt he's as immoral as his mother, so as to deny simple human rights to British citizens, strip them of British citizenship (the greatest form of Humanity God gave to man!), and then deny they exist and let them eek out a living in poverty.

Of course, he did marry Diana, the biggest trollope in modern history.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Of course, he did marry Diana, the biggest trollope in modern history.

Diana wrote Barchester Towers? Does the Daily Express know this?

:wink:

[InsaneApache]

What's wrong with Charles?

I doubt he's as immoral as his mother, so as to deny simple human rights to British citizens, strip them of British citizenship (the greatest form of Humanity God gave to man!), and then deny they exist and let them eek out a living in poverty.

Of course, he did marry Diana, the biggest trollope in modern history.

What's Queenie done now? :inquisitive:

Diana may have been a trollope but a fit one nevertheless.:laugh4:

[Incongruous]

What's Queenie done now? :inquisitive:

Diana may have been a trollope but a fit one nevertheless.:laugh4:

Well she did it rather a long time ago, she basically commited what I would call, treason. We used to cut off treasonous monarchs heads, now we make oscar winning movies about them.
Ill find my article on what she did and post here soon.

As for Trollope of the 20th century, I reckon she was pretty normal really, coupled with her disgusting personality, she was damned ugly.

[English assassin]

I think you are all overlooking one rather glaring weakness in the theory:


he was visited by a relative of Prince Philip, who told him that he is the first in line to the lost French throne.

Lets just think about this: an Indian petit-bourgeois gets told he is heir to the throne of the Sun King. Who do we know we regards the Indians and the French as being placed on earth for his own personal amusement.

Exactly.

Phil the Greek has cooked this one up over the whisky at Balmoral or I am, well, a Greek.

[InsaneApache]

I think you are all overlooking one rather glaring weakness in the theory:



Lets just think about this: an Indian petit-bourgeois gets told he is heir to the throne of the Sun King. Who do we know we regards the Indians and the French as being placed on earth for his own personal amusement.

Exactly.

Phil the Greek has cooked this one up over the whisky at Balmoral or I am, well, a Greek.

Paracoulo? Yassou Costas! :boxedin: Ephiristo. :laugh4:

[Brenus]

No, he can’t be the future King of France. The first good reason is there is no throne of France…
But, any way, the Bourbon lost the blood line with Louis the XVIII, so to be a Bourbon is not any more a good trick. Juan Carlos of Spain is a Bourbon, from Louis the XIV… Ok, by treaty the Spanish Bourbon couldn’t claim the throne, but… And “ si le drapeau blanc doit remplacer le drapeau tricolore, les chassepots partiront tout seul.” Maréchal Mac Mahon. “If the White Flag (symbol of the Monarchy in France) would take the place of the three colours, the chassepots (guns of the period) will start by themselves” Marshal Mac Mahon (1848, around), the only Royalist President of the French Republic.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I don't know about you, but I've turned royalist overnight ever since hearing about this guy. To hell with the Republic. For the sake of absurdity, we must crown this guy king at once!
Maybe he can run for president? Should be fun - a Bourbon restoration AND a Republic. :idea2:


'le drapeau blanc'
No, no, no! Edit it out - quickly. Don't tell the anglosaxons about the colour of this flag. :wall:

[Crazed Rabbit]

Wait, what? The symbol of the French Monarchy is a white flag? Oh man...that's too much.

For what it's worth, you fellows should definitely crown this guy.

Crazed Rabbit

[InsaneApache]

@ Louis and Brenus and all the other guys who are French;

What Louis floated might be a good idea, I mean c'mon look at the caliber of the candidates for the presidency?

*still trying to offload Charles* :laugh4:

[Adrian II]

Maybe he can run for president? Should be fun - a Bourbon restoration AND a Republic. :idea2:AND a Thermidor... :mellow:

[Ignoramus]

Haven't they a king already? Ah no, I forgot, he's the President.

Imagine if France ever got involved in another war.

"No, we are not surrendering, that's just our national flag."

Anyway, France needs a king, that way the English will claim that they are the real kings of France and we'll have the Hundred Hours War.

Of course, that would mean the abolition of the Les Marseilles.

[Brenus]

“Wait, what? The symbol of the French Monarchy is a white flag? Oh man...that's too much”. With the Fleur de Lys on it… In fact, it wasn’t A national flag during the monarchy, but the banner of the King. The national Identity, represented by the three colours was born with the republic (la Nation en danger, The Nation en Danger).
WARNING: If somebody starts the rant against the French and the stupid and inept “cheese eater surrounding monkeys” things, it will finish in blood…
Louis, the Bourbon(s) lost their line after Charles X… The Orleans is the last legitimate dynasty. Statistically speaking all French got royal blood anyway, if you considered how much children Louis XV had children with numerous mistresses…:2thumbsup:

“c'mon look at the calibre of the candidates for the presidency”: C’mon, look the calibre of the lat kings… And the advantage with Presidents, you just need a election to get rid of them not revolutions…:beam:

[Petrus]

Why not?
After all, we have not beheaded anyone for a long time.
This shall be an interesting show as well as a tradition revival and a good program for school children : look, it's a king and that's what we republicans do to those crown bearers *SSSHHHLAK*
The fact he his darker skinned than most of his ancestors could provide a renewal of the show and an economical opportunity :
whatever the colour or the religion, we cut your king in two parts while he's stile alive!
France, give us one king and we'll send you back two (smaller) ones!

[English assassin]

If somebody starts the rant against the French and the stupid and inept “cheese eater surrounding monkeys” things, it will finish in blood…

Yeah, you've got those monkeys surrounded, but what are you going to do when the cheese runs out, eh?

[Banquo's Ghost]

Yeah, you've got those monkeys surrounded, but what are you going to do when the cheese runs out, eh?

:laugh4:

Sorry, but that's the funniest thing I've read all week. :bow: