The french succession law considered that any prince called to reign in a foreign country would loose his rights to the throne on the grounds of pérégrinité.
It happened with Felipe V (Bourbon) called to reign in Spain, and with Gaston, count of Eu, married to the Emperor of Brazil's daughter and heiress.
Gaston had resigned his succession rights when he married Isabel de Bragança.
(He was supposed to have married his younger sister Leopoldina, but that's another story)
Later, when the republic was proclaimed in Brazil, Gaston returned to Europe and invoked he no longer was in line to any throne, and, therefore, asked the head of the Orléans family to be reinstated in the succession order (as well as his sons), but the 1909 Family Pact definitely excluded Gaston and his descendants from the succession.
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