WI:The mainline house of Bourbon and the House of Orleans all died out during the French Revolution?

Hypothetical question.If both the Orleans and the French Bourbons both ended up getting eliminated by the revolutionaries,what would happen?Assuming Napoleon still comes to power and was eventually defeated sometime later,does someone from the Spanish/Parmese/Sicilian branch get sent to assume the throne of France?
 
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Well a giant very complicated can of worms, if you place the Spanish/Parmese?Sicilian Bourbons after the Orleans, then technically they should be excluded entirely. That said it would be very easy for someone to reinstate them as Philip V's renouncing of the French throne was technically illegal, if they are reinstated then Ferdinand VII should be king.
Now if they stay excluded the next would be the House of Condé with Louis VI Henri Joseph de Bourbon as king then if things go according to OTL he dies in 1830 leaving the throne to Louis François II de Bourbon-Conti, he died in 1814 with no heirs. After that you would have to trace the family tree all the way back to at least St. Louis IX, so it more than likely the Spanish/Parmese/Sicilian Bourbons would just be reinstated.
 
If there is no obvious and acceptable member of the french old dynasty left, then the most probable solution is that the allies are going to demande that Napoleon I abdicate and accept that his very young son Napoleon II succeeds him on the throne under the rule of a regency.

France was not a mere italian or german duchy for which the great powers could choose who would be the new ruling dynast. Public opinion mattered enormously so it is very unlikely that, although legitimate by the dynastic rule of Salic Law, very distant (I mean distant by geography and culture, not by blood since they descended from Louis XIV while the Orleans descended from Louis XIII) Bourbons as the spanish, napolitan or parmesan branch be accepted as king of France.
 
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