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Louis Xvi & Marie Antoinette

Louis Xvi & Marie Antoinette . By:kodon simmon & mike winters. Early Life. BORN: AUGUST 23 RD 1754 AT VERSAILLES MARRIED MARIE ANTOINETTE AT THE AGE OF 15 WANTED TO BE A LOCKSMITH HIS ELDEST BROTHER DIED PUTTING HIM NEXT IN LINE TO THE THRONE GOOD AT HISTORY AND LANGUAGES.

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Louis Xvi & Marie Antoinette

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  1. Louis Xvi & Marie Antoinette By:kodonsimmon & mike winters

  2. Early Life • BORN: AUGUST 23RD 1754 AT VERSAILLES • MARRIED MARIE ANTOINETTE AT THE AGE OF 15 • WANTED TO BE A LOCKSMITH • HIS ELDEST BROTHER DIED PUTTING HIM NEXT IN LINE TO THE THRONE • GOOD AT HISTORY AND LANGUAGES

  3. WAS HE READY TO BE KING? • AT THE AGE OF 20 HE WAS PUT ON THE THRONE • HE WAS IMMATURE AND INDECISIVE • HAD NO IMAGINATION • LIKED THE OUTDOORS, BUT COULDN’T HANDLE THE PRESSURE OF THE COURTS • LEARNED ABOUT PREVIOUS RULERS

  4. PRIME MINISTERS • TURGOT- TURGOT’S IDEA OF REFORM WAS ABOLITION OF THE MONOPOLY OF THE GUILDS, THE ROYAL CORVÉE • TURGOT WAS DISMISSED BECAUSE TOO MANY PEOPLE OPPOSED OF THIS IDEA • NECKER-NECKER GREW A REPUTATION FOR BEING A FINANCIAL GENIUS. HE FINANCED FRENCH AID TO THE AMERICAN COLONIES IN THEIR STRUGGLE AGAINST ENGLAND WITHOUT RAISING TAXES. • NECKER WAS ALSO DISMISSED • CALONNE-AFTER MANY ATTEMPTS, HE CONCLUDED THAT THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR THE GROWING DEFICIT WAS TO TAX THE PRIVILEGED GROUPS • ONCE AGAIN, HE WAS DISMISSED

  5. ESTATES GENERAL • AFTER ALL THE PRIME MINISTERS DIDN’T HELP THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: • LOUIS XVI HAD TO CALL THE MEETING THAT HASN’T BEEN CALLED FOR 175 YEARS • THIS MEETING CONSISTED OF: • FIRST ESTATE, SECOND ESTATE, AND THIRD ESTATE • FIRST AND SECOND ESTATES WERE PRIVILEGED

  6. EXECUTION • LOUIS XVI IS TRIED FOR TREASON AFTER THE STORMING OF THE BASTILLE • HE IS FOUND GUILTY • HE IS EXECUTED BY THE GUILLOTINE ON JANUARY 21ST 1793

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