# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:27:29.250Z

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description: "He ascended the throne of France in 1774 and lost his head to the guillotine nineteen years later — the last king before the revolution ended a thousand years of monarchy."
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deathDate: "1793-01-21"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Louis-Auguste became Dauphin at eleven when his father died in 1765, married Marie Antoinette five years later, and inherited the crown from his grandfather Louis XV in 1774. He tried reform — grain deregulation, tolerance for non-Catholics, softer desertion laws — but the nobility blocked him, bread prices spiked, and harvests failed. His support for American independence in 1783 left France broke. The Estates General convened in 1789, the Bastille fell, and Louis's indecision made him the face of everything the revolution hated. His flight to Varennes in June 1791 looked like a bid for foreign rescue and destroyed what trust remained. Arrested in August 1792, stripped of his title, and rechristened Citoyen Louis Capet, he was convicted of treason by the National Convention and executed on 21 January 1793.