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Absolutism
Dauphin Louis Auguste was also known as Louis, Dauphin of France, and later became King Louis XVI of France. He married Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria. Their marriage was the catalyst to the French Revolution. Marie Antoinette embraced the lavish lifestyle of the French royal court with enthusiasm. She had little regard for the poor and struggling peasants, and spent money frivolously. For her attitude, she became the symbol of the people's hatred for the old regime during the French Revolution. When the French Revolution began, Marie Antionette supported the old regime. When the National Convention established the French Republic in 1792, Marie Antoinette and the king were imprisoned. Antoinette was beheaded on 16 October 1793.
The French monarch in 1789 was King Louis XVI. He became King of France in 1774.
No, the French Revolution was during the reign of Louis XVI.
The Hungarian statesman and orator Louis, or Lajos, Kossuth (1802-1894) was the foremost leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-1849 and the symbol of Magyar nationalism.
He started a total moarchy during the time of absolutism
LOUIS XIV, referred to as the Sun King, was the French King who set the model for absolutism.
He was the longest reigning Monarch in the History of Europe.
other countries adopted absolutism
They both believed in absolutism.
Absolutism
louis XIV
He became a saint.
The Huguenots fled France. Other countries adopted absolutism. It began the slow but steady movement from a wealthy European Nation to a debtor Nation. This position was advanced under Louis XV and was made even worse as a result of the Seven Years Wars and the French aid to the United States during the American Revolution under the leadership of King Louis XVI. By 1789 the National debt had developed into a crisis which became the French Revolution. It should be noted that France became a patron of the Arts and of Architecture during his reign, and remains a leader in that cultural arena even today.
Because he assumed total and personal control of France.
Louis XVI became a victim of the guillotine during the French Revolution.
Louis XVI did not have a symbol. His great grandfather Louis XIV did, he was "le roi du soleil" (the sun king) and had the sun as his symbol