索赔4亿美元！贵族起诉法国政府干预摩纳哥王位继承

一位法国的贵族向法国政府索赔3.51亿欧元（约合将近4亿美元），起诉其一百年多前更改了继承规定，导致他的家族无缘承袭摩纳哥王位。

“我希望公开真相，希望家族因法国政府遭受的不公获得赔偿。” 据英国广播公司（BBC）报道，他向法国报媒《巴黎人报》这样表示。

这位贵族路易·德科桑斯现居巴黎，自称是1733年到1793年摩纳哥统治者奥诺雷三世的直系后人。若不是1922年到1949年执掌摩纳哥的路易二世亲王出了继承人问题，本应由他所在的分支家族统治现在的独立君主国摩纳哥。

据英国《卫报》报道，路易二世亲王并没有正式继承人，因此无人能合法继承他的王位，这意味着下一任君王应是他的侄子符腾堡州乌拉赫的王子纪尧姆二世——一位德科桑斯家族的德国先人。但由于当时正处第一次世界大战前夕，法国政府拒不接受让德国人领导摩纳哥。

德科桑斯称，摩纳哥王位本该传给他的家族，但法国政府允许路易二世亲王领养他与酒吧歌手玛丽·茱丽叶特·露薇的私生女夏洛特·路易斯。继承人的规定于1911年修改，承认了私生女的继承权，路易二世得以将王位传给直系子女。

德科桑斯的表兄阿尔伯特二世亲王目前是摩纳哥的君主。

德科桑斯全名路易·让·雷蒙德·玛丽·德文森·德科桑斯，他认为，法国政府耍花招干预继承牺牲了他的家族利益，因此失去了作为摩纳哥王室应有的收入。但他说主要与法国政府抗争，并不针对表兄阿尔伯特二世亲王。

他向《巴黎人报》表示：“这事关名誉。”（财富中文网）

译者：Pessy

审校：夏林

A French aristocrat is suing the French government for €351 million (almost $400 million), saying the French state tricked his family out of the throne of Monaco by changing the heredity rules more than a century ago.

“I want the truth to come out—I want reparation for the injustice done to my family by France,” the noble told Le Parisien, according to BCC.

Louis de Causans, who lives in Paris, says he is a direct descendant of Honoré III, who ruled Monaco from 1733 to 1793. His branch of the family would allegedly be ruling the independent city-state today, except for a wrinkle related to Prince Louis II, who ruled from 1922 to 1949.

According to The Guardian, Prince Louis II had no official heir, and thus was ineligible for the throne. This meant Monaco would pass to his cousin, Guillaume II de Wurtemberg-Urach, the German ancestor of de Causans. But with France on the brink of World War I, the state refused to allow a German leader.

De Causans claims the throne should have passed to his family, but instead, the French state allowed Louis II to adopt his illegitimate daughter Charlotte Louise, born to the cabaret singer Marie-Juliette Louvet. The rules were changed in 1911, recognizing this succession, and Louis II was allowed to reign.

Thus, de Causans’s cousin, Prince Albert II, currently holds the Monaco throne.

De Causans, whose full name is Louis Jean Raymond Marie de Vincens de Causans, argues this “sleight of hand” has cost his family, as he does not receive any revenue from the principality. But he says his fight is with the state of France, not his cousin, Prince Albert II.

“C’est une question d’honneur,” he told Le Parisien. “It’s a matter of honor.”