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  Louis XVI of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis XVI (August 23, 1754 January 21, 1793), was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French in 1791-1792.
Louis was nowhere near as reactionary as his right-wing brothers, the comte d'Artois and the comte de Provence, and he sent repeated messages publicly and privately calling on them to halt their attempts to launch counter-coups (often through his secretly nominated regent, former minister de Brienne).
King Louis XVI was guillotined in front of a cheering crowd on January 21, 1793.
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 Encyclopedia: Louis XVI of France
Louis, duke of Burgundy (August 16, 1682 - February 18, 1712) was the son of Louis, the Grand Dauphin, and grandson of King Louis XIV of France.
King Philip V of Spain (December 19, 1683 – July 9, 1746) or Philippe of Anjou, grandson of the French monarch Louis XIV, was king of Spain from 1700 to 1746, the first of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain.
Louis, dauphin de France, in a pastel by Maurice Quentin de La Tour Louis, dauphin de France (1729- 1765), born in Versailles, was the eldest and only surviving son of King Louis XV of France and Queen Marie Leszczyńska, and thus heir (dauphin) to the throne of France.
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 Louis XVI
Louis realized this and often wished, even before the Revolution, that he were only a common man. His greatest fault was that he was always ready to listen to others and follow their advice.
Louis XVI became king of France in 1774.
The Convention brought Louis XVI to trial on the charge of conspiring with foreign countries for the invasion of France.
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 Louis XVI
Louis XVI, far from being the ruthless tyrant of Revolutionay oratory, was a peaceful and weak man. The irony of the situation remains that had Louis been more forceful at this critical juncture, he and his family may have not lost their lives and their dominion.
Louis XVI was the grandson of Louis XV and was to suffer the consequences of his grandfather's "apres nous, le deluge" attitude.
Louis was married at 15 to Marie Antoinette.
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 Louis XVI, king of France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
1754–93, king of France (1774–92), third son of the dauphin (Louis) and Marie Josèphe of Saxony, grandson and successor of King Louis XV.
Louis ordered the estates to meet and vote separately, but he was forced (June 27, 1789) to yield and allow the estates to sit together and vote by head.
Louis was forced to accept the constitution of 1791, which limited his power, but preserved the royal veto and his power to appoint ministers.
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 Encyclopedia: Charles X of France
He was crowned King of France in 1824 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until the French Revolution of 1830 when he abdicated rather than become a constitutional monarch.
Louis XVI (August 23, 1754 –; January 21, 1793), was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French in 1791-1792.
Louis XVII of France (March 27, 1785 - June 8, 1795) also known as Louis-Charles, Duke of Normandy (1785-1789), Louis-Charles, Dauphin of Viennois (1789-1791), and Louis-Charles, Prince Royal of France (1791-1793), was the son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette, who never...
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 Louis Xviii Of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Louis XVIII (November 17, 1755- September 16, 1824) was King of France from 1814 until his death in 1824.
Louis-Stanislas-Xavier was born on November 17, 1755 in the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France, the fourth son of the dauphin Louis, the son of King Louis XV and Marie Leszczynska.
Louis XVIII died on September 16, 1824, and was interred in the Saint Denis Basilica.
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 Timeline of King Louis XVI
He was the grandson of Louis XV and married Marie Antoinette.
She was the daughter of Maria Theresa and Francis I; and wife of Louis XVI in 1770 and thus Queen of France.
Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.
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 The Execution of Louis XVI, 1793   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Louis XVI, king of France, arrived in the wrong historical place at the wrong time and soon found himself overwhelmed by events beyond his control.
Ascending the throne in 1774, Louis inherited a realm driven nearly bankrupt through the opulence of his predecessors Louis XIV and XV.
The carriage proceeded thus in silence to the Place de Louis XV, and stopped in the middle of a large space that had been left round the scaffold: this space was surrounded with cannon, and beyond, an armed multitude extended as far as the eye could reach.
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 Louis XVI
It is certain that Louis XVI failed to maintain the centralization of power; all the forces in France were conspiring to fragment power away from the monarchy.
   Louis ascended the throne at the age of twenty; he was of average intelligence, but was not overly concerned with the running of the country.
The Revolution took her and Louis by surprise; while she was vilified and hated by the Revolutionaries and the Third Estate, she had no part in any of the abuses of the government or the nobility which precipitated the Revolution.
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 Napoleon and French Revolution Timeline
Louis XVI and family flee but captured- He was persuaded by his life to leave France and lead the invasion.
King Louis XVI is executed (1793)- In 1792 the National Convention declared France a Republic found King Louis on trail and found guilty and was sentenced death by Guillotine.
King Frederick William III (1797-1840)- King Frederick William was the king of Prussia.
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 King Louis XVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Louis the XVI was born on August 23, 1754.
Louis' first thing to do as a king was to restore the political power of the reationary parliments.
Louis the XVI was forced to resign as king in 1781.
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 Louisville.cc - King Louis XVI of France
The statue of King Louis ("Loo-ee") the 16th of France that stands outside the Jefferson County Courthouse in downtown Louisville is 175 years old in 2004.
Marie-Therese was the offspring of King Louis XVI of France and Marie-Antoinette of Austria, who had married to combine their empires.
King Louis XVI is not considered a bright man by historians.
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 Louis XIV - the "Sun King"
Louis was a child of 4 when his father died, but he was not allowed to rule until he became 13.
Louis was able to pour the wealth of France into maintaining a large and well-equipped army.
Louis loved hunting, and in 1661 (age 23) decided to build a transform the small royal hunting lodge at Versailles outside Paris into a magnificent palace with huge elaborate gardens and fountains.
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Louis XVI became King of France on May 20, 1774.
At first, the King was greeted as a popular reformer who agreed to a constitutional framework of government.
After the execution of the King, the Queen Marie-Antionette was kept in prison and separated from her children.
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 Louis XVI, King of France
Louis XVI followed his grandfather Louis XV to the French throne in 1774.
Instead of addressing France's problems, Louis proved to be a weak man who succumbed to the schemes of advisors and his wife, Marie Antoinette, a daughter of Maria Theresia of Austria, who possessed her mother's will, but not her skills.
With Imperial troops massing in Germany, Louis XVI was persuaded by his wife to flee France and lead the invasion.
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 King Louis XVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
King Louis XVI was the king of France from 1755 - 1793, during the French Revolution.
He was also not a very likeable king to the people of France because he did not pay attention to the important things in governmental affairs such as economy and food for all of the people of the country.
He did not really care about his citizens and their well being and that is why he was executed with the process of beheading.
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 Louis Xvi Of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Louis XVI of France (August 23, 1754 - January 21, 1793) succeeded his grandfather (Louis XV of France) as King of France on May 10, 1774; he was crowned on June 11, 1775.
On June 21, 1791, Louis attempted to flee secretly from Paris to the regions with his family in the hope of forcing a moderate swing in the revolution than was deemed possible in radical Paris but flaws in the escape plan caused sufficient delays to enable them to be recognised and captured at Varennes.
Louis was tried (from December 11, 1792) and convicted of treason before the National Assembly.
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 Louis XVI (1774-1792) - Reviews on RateItAll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As King, Louis XVI substantially aided the American colonies in their fight for independence, and it was ultimately due to French aid that we won our independence.
Louis XVI, unlike other kings, was not extravagant and believed that with restricted spending and higher taxes he could effectively control and pay down the debt.
Louis XVI publically and privately pleaded with the counter-revolutionaries (those loyal to the king) to halt their attempts to overthrow the new democratic government.
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 Trianon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is the story of the martyred King Louis XVI and his Queen, Antoinette.
Louis and Antoinette can only be truly understood in view of the Catholic teachings to which they adhered and within the context of the sacrament of matrimony.
It was the graces of this sacramental life that gave them the strength to remain loyal to the Church, and to each other, in the face of crushing disappointments, innumerable humiliations, personal and national tragedy, and death itself.
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 King Louis XVIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
King Louis XVIII was the following ruler of France after Napoleon.
This crowing of King Louis XVIII was significant because this restored the Bourbon family to the throne after his brother King Louis XVI was beheaded.
He left in 1791 to Koblenz during the French Revolution because he knew that since he was in danger because he was the brother of the unsuccessful king.
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 Antique English Silver - Pair medals regarding the execution of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette - Sanda ...
Louis XVI medal: Obv:- Conjoint busts of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, r.
Louis XVI was executed on 21st January 1793.
The medal has been named "The King's farewell" and was intended to exploit the popular revulsion of feeling in England at the execution of the King and Queen of France.
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 King Louis XVI Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As an awkward and timid king, Louis XVI became an important man during the time of the French Revolution when he ascended the throne on May 10, 1774.
Married to Marie Antoinette in 1770, Louis was influenced by a variety of sources.
Shortly after, it was discovered that Louis had been bribing French officials and was tried for treason where he was found guilty and sentenced to death.
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 Royal Genealogies Part 30
Louis XV's reported prophecy, "After me, the deluge," was fulfilled in the overthrow of the French monarchy less than two decades later.
Louis swore obedience to the new Franch constitution in 1791, but continued secretly to work against the revolution and to plot intrigues with France's enemies.
Louis XVI was guillotined on Jan 21, 1793, in the Place de la Revolution (now Place de la Concorde) in Paris.
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 Royalty.nu - French History - Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI and the French Revolution
Louis XVI was in the first year of his reign in 1775, the year the American Revolution began.
Her son Louis Charles (now King Louis XVII) was kept in a dark, filthy cell until he died of tuberculosis in 1795.
Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the French Revolution by Nancy Plain.
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 Royal Family of Europe - pafg06 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Marie Luise Leopoldine Franziska Theresia Of AUSTRIA was born on 12 Dec 1791.
Ferdinand I, Karl Leopold Joseph Emperor Of AUSTRIA King of Hungary was born on 19 Apr 1793.
Marie Karoline Leopoldine Franziska Theresia AUSTRIA was born on 8 Jun 1794 in Wien, Wien, Austria.
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 King Louis XVI
King Louis was accused and convicted of treason, or disloyalty; a traitor to France during the French Revolution.
King Louis XVI was born into royalty and fame on August 23, 1754.
Grandson and successor of the late King Louis XV of France, who died on May 10, 1774, King Louis XVI took over the throne of France at the death of his father.
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