Charles XI of France

''For the cruiseliner on which Anne Colleton returned to the Confederate States from France in 1936, see Charles XI (Ship).

Charles XI (b 1868) was born Charles Maurras. He was head of the Action Francaise party. When the Party seized control of France, he became King Charles XI.

Charles believed that France had been defeated in the Great War as a result of the inherent weakness of its republican government, and that the restoration of the monarchy would likewise restore the military strength of golden ages in French history. Though a monarchist, he supported Spanish Nationalists against the German-backed Spanish Monarchists in the Spanish Civil War--illustrating that France was once again able to challenge Germany on the battlefield. He was also a Catholic theocrat who was extremely suspicious of the motives of Protestant, Jewish, and Freemason public figures.

In 1941, Charles, along with his Entente allies Mikhail II of Russia, Winston Churchill and Oswald Mosley of Britain, and Jake Featherston of the Confederate States, launched a series of coordinated assaults against the Central Powers, beginning the Second Great War.