Why is Louis Such a Popular Name for French Kings?

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History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 30 August 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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If you want to be a French king who is also named Louis, then you have to slap enough Roman numerals at the end of your name to look like an encrypted message. Why are so many French kings named Louis? What significance does the name have for the French people? TO HELP OUT THE SHOW Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher

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1:31.8	Today's question is this, why was Lewis or Louis such a popular name for French kings?
1:38.4	Good question, there are a lot of Louis, aren't there?
1:41.7	We know of the over-the-top decadence of Louis XIV, Louis Coutles, who built Versailles, but think about that.
1:49.2	He was king in the 18th century, and he was the 14th Louis.
1:53.7	I live in the Midwest, and I'm close to St. Louis, as we call it, named after one of the Louis's, not the 14th, but one who went on the crusades.
2:02.1	Why does that stick out so much?
2:04.5	Did you get into this question?
2:06.0	I had some help from Alexei Tureshchenko, who writes on Quora, and he looked into this particular issue.
2:11.7	What he came down to, and what I think is a reasonable assessment of the question, is that when you're a king, and you choose a name for your son, and he's likely going to be king,
2:21.6	you have to choose it well, and you want to choose something that will have a positive association, and not a name that has a negative association,
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