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=====Treaty of Vienna (1814)=====
France would face defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Empire after an unsuccessful French campaign to conquer the city of Constantinople. The Treaty of Vienna was signed in 1814. Despite France's defeat, the revolution had shaken up the old order of Europe and redrew its boundaries. The German Confederation would be created, and the kingdoms of [https://wiki.rosestulipsandliberty.com/wiki/Hanover Hanover], [https://wiki.rosestulipsandliberty.com/wiki/Saxony Saxony], and [https://wiki.rosestulipsandliberty.com/wiki/Pomerania Pomerania] would be restored and expanded. The [https://wiki.rosestulipsandliberty.com/wiki/Netherlands Kingdom of the Netherlands] was also established.
== Valentine period (1815-1874) ==
The Ligurian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Grimaldi Grimaldi family] became the new ruling house of France in 1815. They held the titles of [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.
==== Rise to power ====
In 1733, Princess Louise - the reigning sovereign of Monaco - married the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis,_Duke_of_Joyeuse_(1694%E2%80%931724) Duke of Joyeuse], a French noble. He took the throne of Monaco in 1738. At his death in 1759, the House of Grimaldi inherited the Duchy of Joyeuse in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languedoc Languedoc] and the Picard fiefdom of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Saint-Pol Saint-Pol], giving them even more power in France. Antoine II, head 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 Grimaldi affairs. 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 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 Bourbon princess at his side. The Grimaldis cooperated with [[Austria]], the [[Rhineland|Palatinate Germans]], and [[Netherlands|the Dutch]] in order to ultimately oust [[Augustine Spiga]] from power in the 1810s.
===== The Strike at Fountainebleau =====
From 1809, Louis III made strategic alliances with the Duchess of Orleans 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 prospective heir, the Count of Provence. 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.
===== Chosen as the new dynasty =====
The Grimaldi prince, Louis III, reached Paris with his wife before any Bourbon heirs had. He then negotiated with the Ottomans and Brits 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 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's French branch was referred to as the Valentine dynasty (French: ''dynastie Valentinoise'', Genoese: ''dinastîa Valentìn'') after their ducal title, the Duke of Valentinois.
==== Reign of Louis XV ====
===== Le Marais Scandal =====
==== Reign of Louis XVI ====
==== Reign of Louis XVII ====
==== Demise and exile to Monaco ====
== Second Republic (1874-1877) ==
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