The king is dead, long live the king!

"Le roi est mort, vive le roi " [ lərwaɛ ' mɔ ː r - vi ː v lə'rwa ] (French for " The King is dead, long live the King ") is the herald formula given with the known in France of the death of the old king while the new one was proclaimed. Emphasis was thus the continuity of the French hereditary monarchy and the legal fact that when the king's death, the crown goes immediately into the possession of the successor. As the saying in 1824 upon the death of Louis XVIII. and the simultaneous proclamation of his successor, Charles X was used for the last time, the politician François -René de Chateaubriand also wrote a pamphlet with him as a title.

To date, the German translation of the quote is used as a phrase to express continuity.