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Louis Xvi., King of France
Born in Versailles, Aug. 23, 1754; was a grandson of Louis XV.
and of a daughter of Frederick Augustus, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony.
His father dying in 1765, he became heir presumptive to the throne of France, which he ascended on May 10, 1774, with the beautiful Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, whom he married in May, 1770, as his Queen.
Louis was amiable, fond of simple enjoyments, and was beloved by his people.
Through bad advisers and the wickedness of demagogues, he was placed in seeming opposition to the people when his heart was really with them, and the madmen of France, who ruled the realm during the Reign of Terror, brought both Louis and his beautiful Queen to the scaffold.
They went through the farce of a trial after
Louis Xvi. arraigning the King on a charge of treason, found him guilty, of course, and beheaded him by the guillotine, with accompaniments of vulgar cruelty, in Paris, Jan. 21, 1793.
His death was se