Question 1

"L'État, c'est moi."

Accepted Answer

Louis XIV - The most famous King of France, Louis XIV "The Sun King" was the most prolific actor of the French centralization of power upon the State, after suffering multiple plots during the waning days of his father Louis XIII, creating the Courtisan's life at his flagship Palace : Versailles. Louis XIV is also the longest reining monarch in western history, with the late English Queen Elizabeth II falling short of him by a matter of years.

Question 2

"Je meurs innocent des crimes qu'on m'impute; [...] et prie Dieu que mon sang ne retombe pas sur la France."

Accepted Answer

Louis XVI - The sadly beheaded King of France during its revolution, Louis XVI was quoted to be of weak command, short and weak up to bed. Only the first one was presumbaly true, as it was proven that the masonic plot against the Crown of France was set in motion even before his coronation.

Question 3

"J’ai reçu le drapeau blanc comme un dépôt sacré, du vieux roi mon aïeul. Il a flotté sur mon berceau, je veux qu’il ombrage ma tombe !"

Accepted Answer

Henry V - Known as the Count of Chambord, Henry of Bourbon was the legitimate claimant to the Throne of France after the death of Charles X. He was so close to the restoration of his Throne due to a favorable national assembly at the time, that the Horse Carriage scheduled to take him back from Rheims was already under construction. His refusal of the republican tricolour caused the plan to foil.

Question 4

"Un roi doit mourir debout"

Accepted Answer

Louis XVIII - Louis XVIII was the younger brother of Louis XVI, uncle of Louis XVII and elder brother to Charles X. Titled Count of Provence, he fled to England during the revolution that took his brother, and claimed the Throne as soon as Louis XVII died. He also ping-ponged the power with Napoleon I during the "Hundred days". Louis XVIII is the last King of France who died on the Throne.

Question 5

“J’aimerai mieux scier du bois que de régner à la façon du roi d’Angleterre.”

Accepted Answer

Charles X - King of France from Sept. 16th 1824 to Oct. 9th 1830, Charles X was to this day the last rightful King of France to access the Throne, but also the eldest one sacred at Rheims (66 y.o.) and at the time of his death (79 y.o.).

Question 6

"Si Dieu me donne encore de la vie je ferai qu’il n’y aura point de laboureur en mon Royaume qui n’ait moyen d’avoir une poule dans son pot."

Accepted Answer

Henry IV - King of France from 1589 to 1610, Henry IV was the first of the Bourbon Kings of France, one century before his great-grandson Philip of Anjou became King Philip V of Spain.

Question 7

"Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu’il [Cinq-Mars] fait à cette heure.”

Accepted Answer

Louis XIII - Attributed to Louis XIII at the very moment the Marquis of Cinq-Mars got beheaded ; This is -however- disputed as some people claim Louis XIII didn't know when Cinq-Mars was going to be executed.

Question 8

"La plus laide bête à voire passer, c'est un procureur portant ses sacs."

Accepted Answer

Louis XII - Louis XII (1462-1498-1515) was known as the "Father to the People". Only member of his line over the Throne, he had no children from first wife Saint Jeanne of France, and only a daughter from second wife Anne of Brittany.

Question 9

"Je lis les histoires de ce royaume, et j’y trouve que de tous les temps, les putains ont dirigé les affaires des rois !"

Accepted Answer

Catherine of Medici - Wife to King Henry II and mother to all three last Valois Kings of France (Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III), Catherine of Medici was an effective and prominent Queen and Regent of France.

Question 10

"Ils peuvent être mes bourreaux ; Ils ne seront jamais mes juges !"

Accepted Answer

Marie-Antoinette of Austria - Ill-fated wife to King Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette of Austria stayed loyal to her husband all across the french revolution, and all the way to the scaffold, where she got murdered about nine monthes after her husband. Portrayed as a foreigner, a whore, and traitress, then as an innocent victim and a fashion icon, she's the most famous Queen of France worldwide.

Question 11

"Si on ne veut lui dire la nouvelle, qu'on la lui chante !"

Accepted Answer

Marie of Medici - Wife to King Henry IV and mother to King Louis XIII, Queen Mary of Medici was arguably the worst Regent of France during her son's minority, placing her favorites Concino Concini and Leonora Galigaï on power, attempting to cut Richelieu from decision-making and fighting her eldest son's attempts to seize the power to himself, up to the point of joining a plot to secure the Throne to her younger son Gaston of Orleans instead...

Guess the King/Queen of France (W.i.p.)

2) "Je meurs innocent des crimes qu'on m'impute; [...] et prie Dieu que mon sang ne retombe pas sur la France."

3) "J’ai reçu le drapeau blanc comme un dépôt sacré, du vieux roi mon aïeul. Il a flotté sur mon berceau, je veux qu’il ombrage ma tombe !"

4) "Un roi doit mourir debout"

5) “J’aimerai mieux scier du bois que de régner à la façon du roi d’Angleterre.”

6) "Si Dieu me donne encore de la vie je ferai qu’il n’y aura point de laboureur en mon Royaume qui n’ait moyen d’avoir une poule dans son pot."

7) "Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu’il [Cinq-Mars] fait à cette heure.”

8) "La plus laide bête à voire passer, c'est un procureur portant ses sacs."

9) "Je lis les histoires de ce royaume, et j’y trouve que de tous les temps, les putains ont dirigé les affaires des rois !"

10) "Ils peuvent être mes bourreaux ; Ils ne seront jamais mes juges !"

11) "Si on ne veut lui dire la nouvelle, qu'on la lui chante !"