An aristocrat who claims his family should have inherited the throne of Monaco is suing France for $401 million

A French aristocrat is suing France for €351 million ($401 million) in damages.
Count Louis de Causans says the French state cheated his family out of the throne of Monaco.
De Causans told Le Parisien that “sleight of hand” had allowed the French state to rewrite Monaco’s laws of succession.
De Causans’ ancestor was apparently once Monaco’s rightful heir, but missed out on the throne because he was German, and France was on the brink of World War I at the time.

Louis de Causans is a prince without a kingdom — or so he says.

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