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Dressed in the robes of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit. Louis XVI, by Alexander Roslin, 1782. The comte de Provence, the future Louis XVIII, by Antoine-François Callet, 1788. (The crown and regalia must have been added after he became king.) The comte d'Artois, the future Charles X, by Antoine-François Callet, 1779. And in their coronation robes; Louis XVIII chose to forgo a public coronation ceremony. Louis XVI, by Antoine-François Callet, 1779. Louis XVIII, by Robert Lefèvre, circa 1822…

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Louis XVI (1754-1793; reigned 1774-1791) was a slow, well-meaning, but stubborn man. Like his grandfather Louis XV, he showed genuine concern for his subjects. He lacked a strong will and was the pawn of special interests. He paid for his weakness at the guillotine. He would have been an excellent constitutional monarch, had he been able to bring the Bourbons through the first two years of the Revolution.

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Louis XVI (1754-1793) lost control of the country in 1789 when the middle classes seized power and created a popular National Assembly. The assembly would, during the following three years, “cleanse” the nation of all special privilege, nobility, and inequities, forever ending the divine right of kings in France. Had Louis possessed a more vigorous nature and self-confidence, he could have saved his crown and survived the constitutional crisis.

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