Succession question regarding the French Bourbons.

Would you please inform Louis XVIII of that.

Well, if Louis XVIII chooses alone, he will make a choice acceptable for the UK. Which means a psanish Bourbon renouncing his rights (for him and his offsprings) to the spanish throne.
 
There is a big mistake. No foreign power is going to decide who becomes french king. The french are going to decide by themselves and to make a choice acceptable for the UK and that is all.

It is easy to have a spanish Bourbon renounce to his rights to the spanish throne. This is what actually happened for the ancestor of the man whom french "legitimist" monarchists call Louis XX.


Who , pray, are "the French". And how are the decisions of "the French" to be articulated ? Let alone enforced . You are not suggesting popular election surely?

Paris was an occupied city. France was an occupied country . Occupied by the armies of the Alliance , which was (largely) UK, Austria, Prussia, Russia. No way was that occupying army (which "the French" were paying for) going to leave until there was a ruler of France acceptable to at least a majority of those four. And note that the only one of those where there was even a pretext o f popular election was the UK. This is not a democratic world. "The French" do not get a vote. There are no votes.

It is possibly true to say that the allies would not decide who /would/ be King. But they would certainly decide who /would not/.

Renunciations are well and good. And very common. But the renouncers often argue , later on, that the renunciation is not exactly what it seemed at the time.

EDIT: I'm assuming that the absence of a successor to Louis XVIII is apparent in 1814 and Allies take it into account then. It might be different if there was an apparent successor line available in 1814, which then failed before the death of Louis XVIII.
 
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Well the french nobility would decide. There still were living french nobles and french business people in France and outside France. They were the ones who would be the backbone of the various regimes of this country.

What you have to understand is that the british, the russians, the austrians, ...etc, were not stupid.

They all wanted to reestablish a stable and peaceful France. So they cared a lot about having a nex legitimate and stable regime for the country.

To them this means no republic.

And to them this also means a king who will be seen as legitimate by the people.

That is why they had to find some kind of Bourbon.

This is the reason why I think that, in your scenario, the only possible king is a spanish Bourbon.

If you have no more french Bourbons and no more Orléans (who were also Bourbons), the legitimists are going to demand a french Bourbon and are going to have, for this, a spanish one. It was then only a century since the Bourbons had begun ruling in Spain.

And by the people I mean 2 things :
- some kind of public opinion, be it spontaneous or crafted by the social and political elite,
- and the social and ruling elite.
 
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