Louis Xvi, Being Led To The Guillotine
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Louis Xvi, Being Led To The Guillotine
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Louis XVI (1754-1793) was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before being executed in 1793. In 1770, at the age of 15, Louis-Auguste married the14 year old Archduchess of Habsburg, Marie Antoinette. He became king in 1774, not yet 20 years old. The government was deeply in debt and resentment to 'despotic' monarchy was on the rise. Louis XVI supported the Americans, who were seeking their independence from Great Britain, which was realized in the 1783 Treaty of Paris. The success of the American Revolution and the financial crisis occurring in dance during his reign were contributing factors to the French Revolution, which abolished the absolute monarchy in France and proclaimed a constitutional monarchy in 1791. Louis XVI enjoyed popularity among the masses, but his indecisiveness and conservatism led some to view him as a symbol of the perceived tyranny of the Ancien Régime. Suspended and arrested as part of the insurrection of 1792, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of high treason, and executed by guillotine in 1793, bringing to an end more than a thousand years of French monarchy. Louis XVI is the only King of France ever to be executed.
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