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Historians came to apply the name " Capetian " to both the ruling house of France and to the wider-spread male-line descendants of Hugh Capet.

It was not a contemporary practice.

The name " Capet " has also been used as a surname for French royals, particularly but not exclusively those of the House of Capet.

One notable use was during the French Revolution, when the dethroned King Louis XVI ( a member of the House of Bourbon and a direct male-line descendant of Hugh Capet ) and Queen Marie Antoinette ( a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine ) were referred to as " Louis and Antoinette Capet " ( the queen being addressed as " the Widow Capet " after the execution of her husband ).