LOUIS XVI handwritten letter signed by Breteuil Archbishop 1784

LOUIS XVI - handwritten letter signed - Breteuil - Archbishop - 1784. LOUIS XVI - handwritten letter signed - Breteuil - Archbishop - 1784 Louis XVI, born on August 23, 1754, in Versailles under the name Louis-Auguste de France, was King of France and Navarre from May 10, 1774, to September 13, 1791, and then King of the French until September 21, 1792. He was civically known as Louis Capet and was executed by guillotine on January 21, 1793, in Paris. The son of the Dauphin Louis de France and Marie-Josèphe of Saxony, he became Dauphin upon his father's death. Married in 1770 to Marie Antoinette of Austria, he ascended the throne in 1774 at the age of nineteen, following the death of his grandfather Louis XV.

Inheriting a kingdom on the verge of bankruptcy, he launched several financial reforms, notably driven by ministers Turgot, Calonne, and Necker, including a proposal for an equal direct tax, but all failed due to the obstruction from the parliaments, the clergy, the nobility, and the court. He advanced personal rights through the abolition of torture, serfdom, etc., and achieved a significant military victory against England by actively supporting American independence. However, the French intervention in America ultimately ruined the kingdom.

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