Philosophe's+Views+of+Louis+XVI

What did philosophes think of Louis XVI?

** Philosophe's ideas of Louis XVI **
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__ French Revolution __ French Revolution was the most dangerous and bloodiest revolution in European history. People wanted to change everything. It brought huge changes that are still being used until now. This brought a new form a government, democracy. There were many fightings and arguing involved in this particular revolution.

__ Louis XVI __ Louis XVI was the ruler of France. He was married to Maria Antonia. He was not interested in being a ruler and rule France. He was mostly interested in eating food. He was easily persuaded by other people and he made bad decisions often. Most of the choices that he made were wrong choices that made French peasants suffer greatly. He didn’t pay attention to how people desperately needed the bread the he is eating every day. He spent too much money on things that wasn’t really important like American Revolution. He made French economy to go bankrupt. He made the lower class pay that taxes that are used for his living and American Revolution and he partied with the upper class.

__ Philosophe’s Enlightenment Ideas __ Philosophes thought reason, natural rights, happiness, progress, liberty, and tolerance was the important values. They thought that equality must exist in this society to help people to complain less. They thought it was really unfair that some people get to eat all they want and other people barely get to eat at all. Many people were dying of hunger.

__ Philosophe’s Actions __ Philosophes gathered together and wrote down on a piece of paper the complains that they want the royal court to know. Necar became the advisor of Louis XVI. He persuaded the ruler to listen to his story and believing him. He used the ruler's characteristics of being easily persuaded and applied to get what he wants. Robespierre, a philosophe and a lawyer wanted to become voice for his people. He joined the third state which represented the voice of 97 percent of the population. He took actions to strengthen the power of majority. In the end, the ruler silenced the third state and Necar was fired from his job and the people were mad.

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