AHC French Succession War

Try to get a succession war of France between Louis Joseph, Prince of Conde and the Spanish Bourbons after Louis XVI dies. POD must be after the War of Austrian Succession and Louis XVI must... you know ascend.

Spanish Bourbons are the closest relation aside from Louis XVI's immediate family.

However, they gave up their claim on the throne to France decades ago.
 
According to modern Legitimist arguments, the claim to the throne of France cannot be given up and thus the Spanish bourbons would inherit.
However, should the Spanish Bourbons not be retained, it is unlikely the Condés or the Contis would get the throne, most likely it's the Orléans who would.
 
According to modern Legitimist arguments, the claim to the throne of France cannot be given up and thus the Spanish bourbons would inherit.
However, should the Spanish Bourbons not be retained, it is unlikely the Condés or the Contis would get the throne, most likely it's the Orléans who would.

Yeah, so your challenge is to kill of the Orleans so that Louis Joseph is the best claimant
 
Yeah, so your challenge is to kill of the Orleans so that Louis Joseph is the best claimant
That could be feasible in the Révolution if Philippe Egalité votes against the death of the King and the sans-culottes take revenge on him and his family.
Assuming Louis XVI and XVII get killed one way or another, worse climate in his exile (ex staying longer in the Baltic) worsens Louis de Provence's gout a lot, and kills him, you'd end with Artois in charge.
After that, killing off the Bourbons-Artois can be done by Napoleon in say his Russian campaign (most likely arrested and oops the shot went off).
That would mean there could be such a civil war at the restoration.
 
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