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{geni:occupation} Roi de France (1774-1792), King of France and Navarre 1774-1791, King of the French 1791-1792, Kung i Frankrike 1774-92, Duc de Berry, , Roi de France

{geni:about_me} '''Links:'''

*[http://thepeerage.com/p10207.htm#i102066 The Peerage]
*[http://www.geneall.net/F/per_page.php?id=5240 Geneall]
'''King of the French''' Reign 1 October 1791 X 21 September 1792
'''Predecessor'''[http://www.geni.com/people/index/5318307072010126343 Louis XV]
'''Successor:''' Monarchy abolished
Next reigning monarch in France was Napoleon I starting 1804.
>'''Wikipedia:''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI_of_France English ][http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI_de_France Francais]
*[http://www.fsigenetics.com/article/PIIS1872497310001602/ Louis is assumed to have belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup G2a]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI_of_France

===Descendance===

*Le 16 mai 1770, le dauphin Louis Auguste épouse lXarchiduchesse Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche2, fille cadette de François de Lorraine, grand-duc de Toscane et empereur souverain du Saint Empire romain germanique et de son épouse Marie-Thérèse, archiduchesse d'Autriche, duchesse de Milan, reine de Bohême et de Hongrie. Cette union est la concrétisation dXune alliance visant à améliorer les relations entre la Maison de Bourbon (France, Espagne, Parme, Napleset Sicile) et la Maison de Habsbourg-Lorraine (Autriche, Bohême, Hongrie, Toscane). Les époux bien qu'étant alors âgés de 14 et 15 ans ne consommeront réellement leur mariage que sept ans plus tard. De leur union, quatre enfants naissent, mais ils n'auront pas de descendance :

># Marie-Thérèse de France (19 décembre 1778 X 19 octobre 1851), dite « Madame Royale », qui épouse en 1799 son cousin germain le duc dXAngoulême (1775-1844) ;
># Louis Joseph Xavier François de France (22 octobre 1781 X 4 juin 1789), premier dauphin ;
># Louis Charles de France (27 mars 1785 X 8 juin 1795), duc de Normandie, second dauphin et futur Louis XVII, surnommé « l'Enfant du Temple » pendant sa captivité ;
># Sophie-Béatrice de France (29 juillet 1786 X 19 juin 1787).

Louis XVI (1754-93), king of France (1774-92), who lost his throne in the
French Revolution and was later beheaded by the revolutionary regime.

Louis was born at Versailles on August 23, 1754, the grandson of Louis XV.
The deaths of his two elder brothers and of his father, only son of Louis
XV, made the young prince the Dauphin of France in 1765. In 1770 he
married Marie Antoinette, youngest daughter of Archduchess Maria Theresa
of Austria. On Louis's accession, France was impoverished and burdened
with debts, and heavy taxation had resulted in widespread misery among the
French people. Immediately after he was crowned, aided by such capable
statesmen as Finance Minister Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, baron de
l'Aulne, Interior Minister Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
(1721-94), and Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
(1717-87), Louis remitted some of the most oppressive taxes and instituted
financial and judicial reforms. Greater reforms were prevented, however,
by the opposition of the upper classes and the court. So strong was this
opposition that in 1776 Turgot was forced to resign and was replaced by
financier Jacques Necker.

After Louis granted financial aid (1778-81) to the American colonies
revolting against Great Britain in the New World, Necker proposed drastic
taxes on the nobility. He was forced to resign in 1781, and statesman
Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734-1802), appointed finance minister in
1783, borrowed money for the court until 1786, when the borrowing limit
was reached. The anger of the French people against taxes and the lavish
spending of the court resulted in 1788 in the recall of Necker, who,
however, could not prevent the bankruptcy of the government. In 1788 Louis
was forced to call for a meeting of the representative governmental body
called the Estates-General, the first gathering of that assembly in 175
years. Once in session, the Estates-General assumed the powers of
government. On July 14, 1789, the Parisian populace razed the Bastille,
and a short time later imprisoned the king and royal family in the palace
of the Tuileries. In 1791 the royal family attempted to escape to Austria,
but they were caught and brought back to Paris. Louis swore obedience to
the new French constitution in 1791, but continued secretly to work
against the revolution and to plot intrigues with France's enemies. In
1792, when the National Convention, the assembly of elected French
deputies, declared France a republic, the king was tried as a traitor and
condemned to death. Louis XVI was guillotined on January 21, 1793, in the
Place de la Révolution (now Place de la Concorde) in Paris.

Historians consider Louis XVI a victim of circumstances rather than a
despot similar to the former French kings Louis XIV and Louis XV. He was
weak and incapable as king and not overly intelligent. He preferred to
spend his time at hobbies, such as hunting and making locks, rather than
at his duties of state, and he permitted his wife to influence him unduly.

KING OF FRANCE 1774-1793 (ACCEDED 5/10/1774, CROWNED AT RHEIMS 6/11/1775);
GUILLOTINED

Louis XVI, grandson of King Louis XV, came to the throne of France in 1774. His eighteen year reign ended at the guillotine in 1792. His son, Louis XVII later regained the throne in 1793 to 1795.

After the end of the French Revolution, and the reign of the Bonaparte Family of France, Louis XVIII, brother of Louis XVIII became the King of France in 1814. His reign ended in 1830. He was succeeded by his brother, Charles X.