AHC/WI: Bourbon French Emperors

[The Forty-Eighth Rōnin]

What if at some point the Bourbon monarchs of France decided to style themselves as emperor instead of king. Who's the most likely to start the trends?

How will this affect France? And her neighbors?

 

[Avrorrange]

What if at some point the Bourbon monarchs of France decided to style themselves as emperor instead of king. Who's the most likely to start the trends?

How will this affect France? And her neighbors?

King Francis I,out-competing Charles V in bribing the electors for the throne of the HRE.

 

[JonasResende]

Louis XIV? After his grandson becomes king of Spain? Although Louis XV in one of his more fanciful periods when the Bourbons rule France, Spain, Naples and Parma/Southern Netherlands?