 The legal problem is then to consider such renunciations today as a part of the body of fundamental laws.Saying no is to refuse that Parliament could just as legitimately break in 1717 the will of Louis XIV, saying yes is to accept that the French Parliaments play an essential role in the formation of the corpus of fundamental laws.On the acceptance of renunciations, the application depends on the rule of male collaterality at the death of the last undisputed heir to the throne, the Count of Chambord