Transcription. A four-panel meme.
Person A: “I’m an expert in French history.”
Person B: “Oh yeah? Name 15 kings.”
Person A: “Louis.”
Person B: “That’s on me, I set the bar too low.”
Funny meme, shit title
Lol
Funny comment, shit post
alternatively: henry
It’s Henri, and we only had four of them. But we had 10 Charles.
I think most of the Henrys are English?
Yes Henrys are English but Henris are French
Does anyone know what started the obsession with Louis?
Charles, obviously, okay sure, but Louis I was basically a placeholder whose kids fought over the inheritance.
Louis is the “same name” as Clovis. I mean by that it is how the name evolved as the dynasties changed their language from Frankish to Latin to then French.
Clovis was the first king unifying all Franks, so many Frank kings are named Clovis … and later ones are named Louis.
Clovis is also the modern French rendition of that name. In Old Frankish it was something like Chlodowig. Hence why king Louis is called Lodewijk in Dutch and Ludwig in German.
It comes from the Old German Hlutwik (various possible spelling) meaning “Famous warrior”. Polish language even have two versions of it - Ludwik straight from German and Alojzy from French.
