Louis Xvi's Major Mistakes

Louis XVI was the king of France prior to the revolution and during the first few years of the revolution. His reign ended with him being beheaded due to his mistakes during the revolution. Although he had power for a number of years prior to the revolution and his family held power for a number of years before this, the public no longer saw a king as the right fit for their lifestyle. They wanted a say in how their country was run. They wanted to be a part of the country’s politics. This was never going to happen, if the king was still in charge of the country. We will look at the major mistakes that king Louis XVI made that resulted in his execution.
Louis XVI, (Louis), created tensions when he gathered the nobility and aristocrats and locked

His decision for him to flee was because he felt that he was losing control of his country. In his statement, he left reasons why he fled “But the nearer we see the assembly approach the end of its labors, the more we see increased measures which make difficult or even impossible the carrying on of the government and create for it lack of confidence and disfavor; other regulations, instead of applying balm to the wounds which still bleed in many provinces only increase the uneasiness and provoke discontent. The spirit of the clubs dominates and invades everything; thousands of calumniating and incendiary newspapers and pamphlets, which increase daily, are only their echoes and prepare men to become what they wish them to be.” (King Flees, p. 1) He felt the political clubs that had started to gather were causing his power to be taken away. In the document The Flight to Varennes shows us how the king and queen were recognized. The document also shows how they were stopped, “We used it and other vehicles we found in the neighbourhood to block the bridge.” (Varennes, p.1) In the end the king and queen were escorted back to Paris. They were under arrest at this point as they had supported the revolution until now, at least publicly. Once they fled the public believed the king was against the revolution and feared he would not support them. The fear was the king would regain