give charecter sketch of louis 16.....( in points........!! not in paragraph)
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Character sketch of King Louis XVI
in points.........
✴under Louis 16 France have the 13 American colonies to gain their Independence from the common Enemy Britain
✴he import heavy taxes on the third estate which were the common people.
✴King Louis XVI was the last ruler of Bourbon dynasty of France before the French Revolution.
✴Louis XVI (French pronunciation; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793), born Louis-Auguste, was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
✴ He was referred to as Citizen Louis Capet during the four months before he was guillotined. In 1765, at the death of his father, Louis, son and heir apparent of Louis XV, Louis-Auguste became the new Dauphin of France. Upon his grandfather's death on 10 May 1774, he assumed the title "King of France and Navarre", which he used until 4 September 1791, when he received the title of "King of the French" until the monarchy was abolished on 21 September 1792.
✴The first part of his reign was marked by attempts to reform the French government in accordance with Enlightenment ideas. These included efforts to abolish serfdom, remove the taille, and increase tolerance toward non-Catholics.
✴The French nobility reacted to the proposed reforms with hostility, and successfully opposed their implementation.
✴From 1776, Louis XVI actively supported the North American colonists, who were seeking their independence from Great Britain, which was realised in the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
✴The ensuing debt and financial crisis contributed to the unpopularity of the Ancien Régime. This led to the convening of the Estates-General of 1789.
✴Louis XVI did abolish the death penalty for deserters,as well as the labor tax, which had compelled the French lower classes to spend two weeks out of the year working on buildings and roads.
✴In a context of civil and international war, Louis XVI was suspended and arrested at the time of the Insurrection of 10 August 1792; one month later, the absolute monarchy was abolished.
✴He was tried by the National Convention (self-instituted as a tribunal for the occasion), found guilty of high treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793, as a desacralized French citizen under the name of "Citizen Louis Capet," in reference to Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian dynasty – which the revolutionaries interpreted as Louis's family name.
✴ Louis XVI was the only King of France ever to be executed, and his death brought an end to more than a thousand years of continuous French monarchy.
✴Both of his sons died in childhood, before the Bourbon Restoration,his only child to reach adulthood, Marie Therese, was given over to the Austrians in exchange for French prisoners of war, eventually dying childless in 1851.