Monarchs
After Charles VIII the Affable, the last king in the direct Valois line, three other branches of the House of Capet reigned in France until the fall of the Ancien Régime in 1792:
Valois-Orléans (1498–1515)
- Louis XII
Valois-Angoulême (1515–1589)
- Francis I
- Henry II and Catherine de' Medici
- Francis II
- Charles IX
- Henry III
House of Bourbon (1589–1792)
- Henry IV
- the Regency of Marie de Medici
- Louis XIII and his minister Cardinal Richelieu
- the Regency of Anne of Austria and her minister Cardinal Mazarin
- Louis XIV
- the Régence of Philip II of Orleans
- Louis XV
- Louis XVI
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