Was King Louis XVI partially responsible for his own downfall Awkward and timid, no man appeared less like a king than Louis XVI, he was merly 20 years old when he succeeded his grandfather Louis XV and came in to the throne. No one could have seemed more out of place than he did. Louis himself realised this and often wished, even before the revolution, that he were a common man. Although he made an earnest …
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…were his brothers the comte d' Artois and the comte de Provence. King Louis abolished torture and the death penalty, he abolished the corvee, or land tax, he was a noble and corageous G-d fearing man who was sadly corrupted and influenced by other people because he was not strong enough to put his foot down and lay down the laws, even though he was the king. He was beheaded in the name of Liberty