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The Ligurian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Grimaldibranch Grimaldiof family]the Bourbons, known as the House of Bourbon-Grimaldi became the new ruling house of France in 1815. They held the three major titles of Duke of Orléans, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Valentinois Duke of Valentinois], and Prince of Monaco for centuries, giving them influence and prowess in the Bourbon court.

In 1733, Princess Louise Hippolyte - the reigning sovereign of Monaco - married the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis,_Duke_of_Joyeuse__Duke_of_Orl%C3%A9ans_(16941703%E2%80%931724931752) Duke of JoyeuseOrléans], a French noble. Heand took the thronedecendent of MonacoKing inLouis 1738.XIII Atthrough his deathsecond inson Philippe 1759I, the HouseDuke of Grimaldi inherited the Duchy of Joyeuse in [https://enOrléans.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languedoc Languedoc]He andtook the Picard fiefdomthrone of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Saint-Pol Saint-Pol], giving them even more powerMonaco in France1738. Antoine II, headPrince of the Grimaldis in Monaco, greatly developed the family's reputation among the French by spending the majority of his time in Versailles. This would come back to bite him, as he was murdered during the [[French Revolution#Murders of Versailles|French Revolution]] in 1795.

His brother, Antoine III, would then presume control of Grimaldihis brother's affairstitles. He begrudgingly cooperated with the Augustinian regime while silently maintaining ties to the traditional French aristocracy. In 1800, his son, the Marquis of Baux Louis Giuseppe married the a legitimate great-great daughter of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV Louis the Great], ''fille de France'' [[Princess Marie Blanchefleur]] du Bourbon. Upon Antoine III's death in 1803, the now-Louis III ascended to princedom and dukeship - now with a more senior Bourbon princess at his side. The GrimaldisHouse of Bourbon-Grimaldi cooperated with [[Austria]], the [[Rhineland|Palatinate Germans]], and [[Netherlands|the Dutch]] in order to ultimately oust [[Augustine Spiga]] from power in the 1810s.

From 1809, Louis III made strategic alliances with the Duchess of OrleansJoyeuse and members of the French gentry. When Augustine's regime fell to their knees, the Monacan prince hired a disgruntled soldier named [[Cesar de Thury]] to murder the prospectiveCount heirof Provence, thewho Counthe ofsaw Provenceas a major threat to his planned ascension. On a September afternoon in 1814, the Count of Provence was shot while leaving the Palace of Foutainebleau for Paris. He was then bludgeoned repeatedly in the head and his horse set on fire. The assassin, de Thury, was assaulted by the Count's bodyguards before biting one's finger off. He then promptly escaped but was arrested in Sens.

The GrimaldiMonacan prince, Louis III, reached Paris with his wife before any of the more senior Bourbon heirs had. He then negotiated with ambasors from all of the OttomansEuropean andGreat BritsPowers for several months, before being recognized as the new King of France in 1815. This decision was took when it became clear that King [[Henri V]], the more senior Bourbon monarch in the Americas, had minimal intention of returning to Paris under the current circumstances.

Louis III of Monaco was coronated as [[Louis XV]] of France in the June of 1815, choosing Louis as the primary and only regnal name of his line. The Grimaldi'sthe FrenchHouse branchof Bourbon-Grimaldi was commonly referred to as the Valentine dynasty (French: ''dynastie Valentinoise'', Genoese: ''dinastîa Valentìn'') after one of their ducal titletitles, the Duke of Valentinois.

New egalitarian ideas compilled into an ideology called communardism rocked France in the 1870s. Coming from France's intellectual circles, the concept of ''communardism'' would win over the French public's following and lead to the bloody murder of King Louis in 1873. The heir died shortly after due to a falling accident. With the Bourbonmonarchy linerapedly dyingdeclining outin popularity, the radical communard party ''Société des Amis de la République'' (often shortened to the ''Société'') occupied the power vacuum. The party leader, [https://wiki.rosestulipsandliberty.com/wiki/%C3%89tienne%20Th%C3%A9venet Étienne Thévenet], declared the establishment of the Communard Republic of France, espousing hardline communard ideals and rejecting all forms of religion and aristocracy. Thévenet envisions a united Europe that transcends racial and linguistic boundaries, united under the ideals of communardism.