L Answers Quiz #1

That is really not nitpicking. If the question was about the 5 (or 4) "Henris", you could debate about the question of "Henri V" (Was he king for a few minutes?). Likewise, 2 or 3 Napoléons (does the abdication of Napoleon I, after his defeat, in favor of Napoleon II, who never came to claim his title, was never proclaimed, crowned, nor anything, counts). That would be nitpicking.

But Louis XVII wasn't even a debate. Monarchy was abolished way before LouisXVI death. And "Louis XVII", so called, died 2 decades before monarchy was reinstated. It is a pure fiction. The same fiction that made Louis XVIII (king from 1814-1815 to 1824) dating acts "year 29 of my reign". Because he considered revolution and Napoleon has null and void. So, unless you are against democracy, and side with that "only legal government is king, and Louis XVIII was king all that time" fiction, there is no way to count Louis XVII. The is just no Louis XVII king.

100% true.

No list of kings have 18 Louis (there are a few weirdos, who, like Louis XVIII, continues to claim that there wasn't a revolution and a republic. Those would include Louis XVII in their list. But, then, also Louis XIX and Louis XX. So even those would agree that there isn't 18 Louis).

That being said, I can't resist pointing out that difference between Clovis and Louis, contrarily to Louis vs Louis-Philippe (Louis-Philippe himself, called himself Louis-Philippe I, despite the habit to add "I" only if there is a "II", to clearly mark that this was a new series) is purely arbitrary. Both Clovis IV and Louis I were called "Ludovicus" in chronicles. It is only centuries later, when "historians" started to number them, that they decided to distinguish barbarians merovingians "Clovis" from civilized carolingians "Louis" (likewise for Lothaire and Clotaire). But even that only prove that we could have counted the Clovis; yet we didn't.