French society would sufficiently change by the time of his descendant, Louis XVI, to welcome tolerance in the form of the 1787 Edict of Versailles, also known as the Edict of Tolerance. This restored to non-Ca
Louis XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette, became queen. The pair would feel the wrath of the upcoming French Revolution, but some experts claim that the seeds of revolt had already been planted during King Louis XV's reign. QUICK FACTS Birth date: February 15, 1710 Birth City: Versailles Birth...
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In June 1791, King Louis XVI and his family snuck out of Paris during the night, hoping to escape from the French Revolution and its violence. He planned to escape the country and return with foreign assistance to reclaim control of France, but the people of Varennes stopped and detained hi...
This enabled Charles' sisters Maria Theresa (1638–1683) and Margaret Theresa to pass their rights to the children of their marriages with Louis XIV and Emperor Leopold. However, to prevent a union between Spain and France, Maria Theresa had renounced her inheritance rights on her marriage; in...
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Louis was the fourth son of the dauphin Louis, the son ofLouis XV, and received the title comte de Provence; after the death of his two elder brothers and the accession of his remaining elder brother asLouis XVIin 1774, he became heir presumptive. The birth of two sons to Louis XVI, ...