King of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791, then King of the French from 1791 to 1792 (1754-1793)
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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.
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 forei…
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