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A Short Biography of King Louis XVI

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King Louis XVI

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King Louis XVI

Born:

23 Aug 1754

Died:

21 Jan 1793




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Bourbon Monarch                          
Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to as Citizen Louis Capet during the four months just before he was guillotined. In 1765, upon the death of his father, Louis, Dauphin of France, he became the new Dauphin                          
                                              
                                              
King of France and Navarre until 1791.
King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before being deposed and executed in 1793.

Louis XVI attempted to reform the kingdom in accordance with the Enlightenment ideals - Abolition of torture, abolition of serfdom, tolerance towards Jews and Protestants, abolition of the Taille,  a direct land tax on the French peasantry and non-nobles in Ancien Régime France. The tax was imposed on each household and based on how much land it held.