<Tr> <Th> Appointer </Th> <Td> Hereditary </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Pretender (s) </Th> <Td> Disputed: Louis Alphonse (House of Bourbon) Henri d'Orléans (House of Orléans) Jean - Christophe (House of Bonaparte) </Td> </Tr> <P> The monarchs of the Kingdom of France and its predecessors ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of the Franks in 486 until the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870 . </P> <P> Sometimes included as "Kings of France" are the kings of the Franks of the Merovingian dynasty, which ruled from 486 until 751, and of the Carolingians, who ruled until 987 (with some interruptions). </P>

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