Life history of louis 16 about 350 words
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King Louis XVI was born on August 23, 1754 in Versailles, France. With the death of his father in 1765, Louis became the new heir to the throne of France. He ascended to the throne five years later in 1770 at the age of 20. In an attempt to solidify the new treaty between their two countries, Louis married Marie Antoinette, the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, on May 16, 1770. Louis was the King in name and in power, but did not support this authority with his character, being more interested in hunting and his personal hobbies than his kingship. Louis did not have any interest in the idea of enlightened despotism, which caused his courtiers to view him as slow-witted and unintelligent. These, however, were false assumptions. Moreover, it was his inexperience at leadership which often allowed these courtier’s opinions to direct his ruling, his ignorance of public opinion and his denial at the spiralling events of the revolution which proved to be his downfall, poignantly seen from his diary entry on the day the Bastille was seized by revolutionaries, when he wrote: “Rien” – nothing happened. Despite this, he was honest and well-intentioned.
Louis’s wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, was extremely unpopular among the common folk of France as the representative of the hated Austrian alliance.
on January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI was beheaded using the guillotine
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