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Louis XVI

Before the French Revolution, life was just bad. Almost all of the population was either peasants or city-workers. They had basically nothing, no food, no money, no warmth, etc. The other three- percent of the population had power and wealth. Life was considerably livable for the nobles. The clergy had the best life and the most wealth. King Louis the XVI made life miserable for these people and they wanted change, and they wanted it now! The only way to get what they wanted was to rebel, and rebel they did! The government they soon introduced was the best alternative to the tyranny of absolute monarchy that they could have developed.
King Louis the XVI was a weak leader. He was born into debt and also borrowed quite heavily in order to help the American revolutionaries against Great Britain. King Louis did not pay much attention to his government advisers. They told him to stop asking for money or he would get himself and his wife Marie Antoinette into more trouble than they a...

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