:It probably doesn't belong here, but I'm sure it's somewhere else in Wikipedia...probably pretender. The French could make anyone king, but if they were to do it on the basis of hereditary "claims", it would depend which "throne" they were "restoring". In the unlikely possibility that it would be the Imperial throne, the current claimant is Charles Bonaparte. If it were the royal throne, there are two leading contenders, Henri, Comte de Paris, Duc de France, Orléanist pretender, and Louis-Alphonse, Duc d'Anjou, the Legitamist pretender. The former having by far the more monarchist supporters, and the latter looking better in his sumptuous red Ruritanian uniform... -