# The One True King of France has arisen, or something **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 3, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-true-king-of-france-has-arisen-or-something/1003699 "2024-07-03T21:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-true-king-of-france-has-arisen-or-something/1003699/1 "2024-07-03T21:11:27Z")
The French version of Excaliber has been destoned. I hope kinging pays good because the thing is probably too hot to fence. > **['French Excalibur' vanishes from rock it had been in for 1,300 years](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13594439/French-Excalibur-vanishes-rock-stuck-past-1-300-years-police-launch-investigation.html)** > > The famed Durandal sword is presumed to have been stolen from the southern village Rocamadour, despite it being wedged and chained to the stone 32ft off the ground. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-true-king-of-france-has-arisen-or-something/1003699/2 "2024-07-03T21:17:12Z")
The French: _guillotine sharpening noises_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-true-king-of-france-has-arisen-or-something/1003699/3 "2024-07-03T21:25:07Z")
The Bourbons never claimed it?? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-true-king-of-france-has-arisen-or-something/1003699/4 "2024-07-03T21:39:19Z")
Or the far right National Rally party? (Making it an épée-Pen) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-true-king-of-france-has-arisen-or-something/1003699/5 "2024-07-03T21:42:29Z")
Nice. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-true-king-of-france-has-arisen-or-something/1003699/6 "2024-07-03T21:52:57Z")
never mind. ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-true-king-of-france-has-arisen-or-something/1003699/7 "2024-07-04T09:57:58Z")
This whole story needs to be read with some very heavy doses of scepticism. The stolen sword was only nineteenth-century, replacing an earlier sword stolen during the French Revolution. And neither probably had anything to do with Roland. There is a good discussion of its history, started before the recent theft, here. [Roland’s Durendal sword-in-the-stone at Rocamadour : r/badhistory (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/1cvp7bx/rolands_durendal_swordinthestone_at_rocamadour/) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-true-king-of-france-has-arisen-or-something/1003699/8 "2024-07-04T14:45:27Z")
Well, yeah, everyone knows that the real Durandel is being wielded by a Knight of the Cross (currently Sanya), and passed down by the angels to worthy successors. It wouldn’t do anyone any good stuck in some rock somewhere.