Louis XVI
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Louis XVI.
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
French king under the ancien régime whose character is described as unfit for enlightened despotism, preceding the French Revolution.
But the power of the French Crown was practically more limited than modern critics always perceive, whilst the circumstances no less than the character of Louis XV.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
King of France whose execution during the French Revolution is cited as a secondary, not central, event of that Revolution.
Not the taking of the Bastille nor the execution of Louis XVI, but the night of August 4, when feudal privileges were thrown to the winds, was the central fact of the French Revolution.