Round 8: Tossup 4

A member of this house formed the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. (-5[1])A (15[1])member of this house suppressed the Fronde and employed Cardinal (15[1])Mazarin. (15[2])The Legitimists supported a king from this house (15[2])who was deposed (-5[1])in favor (15[1])of a member of a cadet branch in the (*) July Revolution. A mass slaughter of Protestants occurred at the wedding of a king from this house and was called the St. Bartholomew's (10[1])Day Massacre. This house maintained control (-5[1])of the Spanish throne after the War of Spanish Succession. A member of this house ordered the construction of the Palace of Versailles. (10[1])For 10 points, name this French royal house, whose member Louis XVI (“the sixteenth”) was guillotined. (10[3])■END■ (10[1]0[4])

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