louis xvi

Louis XVI (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793), born Louis-Auguste, rule 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 10th of August 1792 Insurrection, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of treason, and executed on 21 January 1793.

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In 1789 pesky revolutionaries imprisoned this king & his family in the Tuileries Palace
On July 14, 1789 this French king wrote in his diary "Nothing"
Just prior to his January 21, 1793 execution, he cried out, "People, I die innocent"
King when the French Revolution broke out, he was guillotined in 1793
Marie Antoinette
On Sept. 21, 1792 the monarchy was abolished; 4 months later, this king was guillotined
Urging his execution, in 1792 Robespierre said this king "must perish because our country must live!"
Her husband
In 1788 Jacques Necker asked this king to call the Estates-General, which last met in 1614; not the king's best move
On January 19, 1793 this man learned the French Revolutionary Convention had voted for his execution
Prior to his 1793 execution, this French king yelled, "I am innocent of all charges brought against me"
This French king was condemned in mid-January 1793 & was executed January 21
His reign as King of France began in 1774; it would be cut short 18 years later
The demise of this monarch is depicted here
Hunting & masonry were favorite hobbies of this king, Marie Antoinette's husband
Marie Antoinette presumably let them eat cake at her wedding to this future king in 1770
...of this French monarch, who granted the American colonies cash before losing his head in 1793
In June 1791 this king & his family tried to escape France in what's known as the "Flight to Varennes"--no go
In 1792 this man's trial began in Paris
When George washington became president, this man was king of France
This king had a lot taken off the top January 21, 1793
His 1791 attempt to flee was thwarted when he was recognized from his picture on French money
When Washington was inaugurated, the French ecu, featuring this ruling monarch, was circulating in the U.S.
On January 21, 1793 he told a throng of onlookers, "I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge"
In 1770 Marie Antoinette married the Dauphin who would become this king of France 4 years later
On January 21, 1793 Parisians headed off this ruler's reign
In January 1793 France's national convention voted 387 to 334 to have him guillotined
The highlight of his years as a prince surely had to be marrying a beautiful Austrian archduchess in 1770

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