How was Louis XVI Innocent?

Question

Nothing on the internet says that Louis XVI was innocent and Im doing a project where i am the lawyer and Im defending Louis XVI. So I need someone to tell me how and where to find information or the answer to my question.

Answer 1

I would focus on the circumstances of his upbringing and the necessarily insular world in which he lived. During the reign of Louis XVI (and the Louis' before him) the King was reliant on the words and opinions of advisers who had their own agenda; he was not expected to be a "Man of the People" as today's leaders are. The King was chosen by God and ruled by Divine Right.....He was only as arrogant (and, essentially, clueless) as he was nurtured to be. Probably Louis XVI would have been happier in his relative ignorance without a crown and all the pressure which that entailed....but history, tradition and circumstance were not on his side.....or on the side of the French people in general.

Answer 2

Louis XVI (23 August 1754–21 January 1793) was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French from 1791 to 1792. Suspended and arrested during the Insurrection of the 10th of August 1792, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of treason, and executed on 21 January 1793. His execution signaled the end of the absolutist monarchy in France and would eventually bring about the rise of Napoleon. On his death, his eight-year-old son, Louis-Charles, automatically became to royalists and some foreign states the de jure King Louis XVII of France, despite France having been declared a republic.

Answer 3

Counterrevolution isn't as legal charge, meaning it was not included in French law, so how can he be guilty of a violating a law that didn't exist?

also, i FOUND THIS:
"Was Louis guilty of the charges levelled against him? On the 22nd of September, King Louis XVI was brought to court. He faced several charges, which included, bankrupting the nation, plotting against the revolution, trying to flee and accepting a constitution in which he despised. Louis denied all the charges that he faced. In this essay, we will see what decision we get after we look behind the truth of these charges. Louis was accused for bankrupting the nation, which I think is a bit unfair to him as when he came on the throne, the country was already in debt as it had been passed down from his father's reign. But, there were several rumours going on that Louis' wife, Marie Antionette was wasting a lot of money as she had been reported to have bought a diamond necklace worth 1.6 million livres. So, this was not entirely Louis' fault. Another charge that was brought up against Louis was plotting against the revolution. "

In other words, you can't execute someone legally just because they pissed you off. If you take the charges against him point by point and apply them to the existing body of law, then he is easily proven innocent.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Louis 14th -"Sun King"
Louis14th of France was the "1st servant of the state," ruled 1643-1715, from age 5 until death at 77. He assumed full power after 1661 death of Mazarin and was absolute but not whimsical. He built institutions to express national power =mercantilism, diplomacy, war. He established "intendants" to administer 36 "generalities" in France, created head tax as well as land tax and excise tax on salt. Colbert's high protective tariff reduced barriers between provinces but raised barriers around the borders of France, thus increasing the power of the centralized state. Mercantilism used economic means to promote political ends. It assumed that only a fixed amount of wealth existed in the world, and bullionism assumed that "wealth consists of money." National policies were to promote exports over imports, raise protective duties, provide bounties for enumerated commodities, acquire colonies for raw materials, protect trade routes, develop domestic industries. He nationalized the Gobelin textile factory. He supported Louvois' large conscript army with muskets and bayonets and new rank of Lt. Colonel to check on the nobility's colonel, created engineer corps, uniforms, funded Vauban's technology of fortifications. Louis sought to expand France to natural boundaries of Rhine, Alps, Pyrenees, sea. His reign was the beginning of treaties (from French "traiter' = to negotiate) and a diplomacy that featured a display of power and opulence at the Versailles palace.
He probably had a mental break down .would be my defence

Answer 6

He potential that the French people don't be stricken by vengeance which would be delivered upon them for killing their king... In different words, he's forgiving the persons and hoping the main suitable for his people... Too undesirable Robespierre did no longer care...

Answer 7

He was not innocent, he was selfish only worried about himseld and his pleasures, never worried about the people