condominium over the Sultanate of Egypt and re-open the Suez Canal. The Rose of Versailles Louis XV was the previous King of France. He died of smallpox inside the Palace of Versailles before his people celebrated the birth of a new kingdom. And after his death, his lover Madame du Barry has taken a convent where she remained until she was guillotined. Louis XVI, the Dauphin, becomes the new King of France with his wife, the former princess Marie Antoinette, as its Queen after his grandfather's death but has been captured with his royal family during the French Revolution. He has been in jail and is later executed, including his family. His son, Louis Joseph, was the heir apparent who admired the female soldier, Oscar François de Jarjayes, and wanted to be the King of France so that he would make the country great, but died of illness at the age of seven. The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck Pippin Arnulf Héristal, a descendant of Charlemagne, is crowned as Pippin IV to provoke a rebellion. Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove Charles XI After France's defeat during the First Great War, he becomes king of France between the late 1920s and 1930 after Action Française takes control of the country, ends the French Third Republic, and restores the monarchy. He serves as the King of France for fourteen years and leads his country into another war with the German Empire after the new Kaiser Wilhelm III refuses to return Alsace-Lorraine to France. He is later killed in 1944 when Germany destroys most of Paris with an atomic bomb. Louis XIX Following Charles XI's death, he is succeeded by Louis XIX. While he initially announced France's intention to continue to fight Germany, he ultimately accepts capitulation. To Kill Napoleon, Whatever the Cost by Elizabeth Williams Napoleon VI is the French Emperor in 1973 in an alternate timeline where Napoleon I imposed a crushing defeat on Britain in 1807. The Two Georges by Richard Dreyfuss and Harry Turtledove François IV is mentioned as being the King of the Holy Alliance, a union of the French and Spanish Empires and the British Empire's main rival. The Virgin & the Wheels by L. Sprague de Camp Napoleon V Emperor of the French in an alternate universe in which New York City was seemingly under Bonpartist occupation enforced by looting Spanish soldiers.