Completely misjudged the mood of his people. He thought the French would listen to his every word and follow his every order despite the French people being dirt poor and starving. Louis XVI believed he had a closed connected to the creator and nothing would happen to him and the French peasants would follow his divine leadership. As a result, he lost his head, plenty of nobels lost their heads, and plenty of clery lost their heads.
2007-02-13 02:24:56
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answered by mac 7
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Louis XVI (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as 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 I.
Although he was beloved at first, his indecisiveness and conservatism led the people to reject him and hate in him the perceived tyranny of the former kings of France. During the French Revolution, he was given the family name Capet (a reference to Hugh Capet, the founder of the dynasty), and was called Louis Capet in an attempt to discredit his status as king. He was also informally nicknamed Louis le Dernier (Louis the Last), a derisive use of the traditional nicknaming of French kings.
n October 1789, angry and hungry women of the Parisian underclass marched to Versailles, the palace where the royal family lived, and brought them back to Paris to deal with a food shortage.
On 21 June 1791, Louis attempted to flee secretly from Paris to modern-day Belgium (then part of the Austrian Empire) with his family in the hope of forcing a more moderate swing in the revolution than was deemed possible in radical Paris. However, flaws in the escape plan caused sufficient delays to enable them to be recognised and captured at Varennes. Supposedly Louis was captured while trying to make a purchase at a store, where the clerk recognized him. According to the legend, Louis was recognized because the coin used as payment featured an accurate portrait of him. He was returned to Paris, where he remained indubitably as constitutional king, though under effective house-arrest until 1792.
On 25 July 1792 Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, commander of the Prussian forces, issued a manifesto (the so-called Brunswick Manifesto) threatening the inhabitants of Paris with exemplary vengeance if the Royal family was harmed and threatening the French public with exemplary punishment if they resisted the Imperial and Prussian armies or the forced reinstatement of the monarchy. The manifesto was taken to be the final proof of a collusion between Louis and foreign powers in a conspiracy against his own country. Louis was officially arrested on 13 August 1792 and sent to the Temple, an ancient Paris fortress used as a prison. On 21 September 1792, the National Assembly declared France to be a republic.
2007-02-13 02:22:23
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answered by Cess 2
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