Editing Elective monarchy (section)

====Gaul/France====
The [[Gauls|Gallic tribes]] were each ruled by a ''rix'', which can be translated as king, who were elected for terms of one year or longer. Candidates were drawn from relatives of past kings.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Freeman |first1=Philip |title=The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts |date=2006 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=0743289064 |page=95}}</ref>

The Frankish kingdom was at least partly elective. Merovingian kings were elected, while Carolingian kings were elected at times. In the 10th century Western Frankish royal elections switched between different lineages before settling on the Capetians.<ref name="halden">{{cite book |last1=Halden |first1=Peter |title=Family Power: Kinship, War and Political Orders in Eurasia, 500–2018 |date=2020 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1108495929 |pages=66–67}}</ref> [[Medieval France]] was an elective monarchy at the time of the first [[House of Capet|Capet]]ian kings; the kings however took the habit of, during their reign, having their son elected as co-king and successor during their reigns. The election soon became a mere formality and vanished after the reign of [[Philip II of France|Philip II]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=Williston |title=On the Increase of Royal Power in France Under Philip Augustus, 1179-1223 |date=1888 |publisher=Gressner & Schramm |pages=4–7}}</ref>

After declaring the throne vacant, the French Chamber of Deputies voted 229–33 to declare [[Louis-Philippe of France]] as [[King of the French]] during the [[July Revolution]] of 1830,<ref>{{cite book |last1=John S.C. Abbott |title=Louis Philippe |date=2019 |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=978-3734074752 |pages=151–152}}</ref> creating an elective monarchy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gino Raymond |title=Historical Dictionary of France |date=2008 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0810862562 |page=52 |edition=2, revised}}</ref> France briefly had again a kind of elective monarchy<ref>{{cite book |last1=John Burley Waring |title=The state, a sequel to the 'Universal Church'; together with a suppl. 'Record of thoughts', and some essays |date=1874 |page=2}}</ref> when [[Napoleon III]] was first elected President of France and then transformed himself into an Emperor.