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The house of Valois went through a whittling down in the late 15th-early 16th century - the extinction of the branches of Burgundy, Anjou, Alençon, Berri and Orléans - that led to the house of Bourbon succeeding King Henri III.

What would the result have been if those branches that had been whittled down were to survive? What would 16th century France have looked like?
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