In French.
May 10, 1774: the death of Louis XV placed on the throne an inexperienced, shy, cultured but educated young man without affection, and little trained in the exercise of power. For fifteen years, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette lived in the closed universe of Versailles, strangers to the realities ...
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In French.
May 10, 1774: the death of Louis XV placed on the throne an inexperienced, shy, cultured but educated young man without affection, and little trained in the exercise of power. For fifteen years, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette lived in the closed universe of Versailles, strangers to the realities of the kingdom.
However, the economic, political and social situation of the kingdom is difficult. The French no longer want to live with an authoritarian government that refuses to understand them, nor with magistrates and royal officers who are more attached to their privileges than to changes that have become essential.
The summer of 1789 arrived: the king lost control of the Estates General, but met at his request. From then on, there followed one another the events that would lead to the fall of the monarchy and that Louis XVI was imposed without knowing how to accept them or adapt to them: the oath of the Jeu de paume, the taking of the Bastille, the abolition of privileges, the Declaration of Human Rights, the constitutional monarchy, the Federation's day.... Too attached to an outdated absolutism, Louis XVI was condemned, at the end of a sloppy trial, to die on the scaffold on 21 January 1793.
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