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The man who excluded all of his descendants from the French throne by international treaty, in perpetuity.
But his descendants still have a throne, soooo... win?
But not the French throne; nor even a legitimate claim!!!
They have the Spanish throne, which I'm pretty sure they did/do have a claim to. If not through Felipe's grandmother, then his great-grandmother. Or Carlos II's will.
I said that he renounced his and their claims to the FRENCH throne. It was part of the agreement to get the Spanish and the Neapolitan and the Sicilian thrones. Maybe a remedial reading course?
Do you know the concept of Hierarchy of Norms? A rule of a lower level is null and void if it is incompatible with a rule of higher level. For example... A treaty that would violate the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom.
Orleanist nonsense in 3... 2... 1...
An accursed monster who loved sleeping in coffins. He's so hated in Catalonia we still call the toilet "can Felip" and in Valencia his portraits are hung upside down to dishonor him to this day
What made him so hated in Catalonia?
Well he did countless atrocities in Catalonia and Valencia (burned dozens of towns to the ground) and annexed and dismantled our state institutions, including our parliament and acted in an extremely tyrannical way doing countless cruelties such forcing the people living in La Rivera neighbourhood of Barcelona to raze their own homes to build a massive citadel to keep the city under control (the cannons pointing to the city). The citadel was demolished in the 1840s as Catalonia regained a degree of self government. Philip V also disarmed the population to the point that every household could only have one small knife in the kitchen and it had to be roped to a table, under penalty of death. He also imposed a punitive tax called the Cadastro to make Catalans pay for the occupation army. Of course he also heavily persecuted the Catalan language and banned it from public service (he couldn't ban it completely because nobody spoke Spanish and he couldn't police every church or council meeting but any official document had to be in Spanish).
Now, to be fair.... what non-Catalonian isn't hated in Catalonia?