King Louis XVIA.He admired the revolution's principles.B.He was suspicious of the leaders of the revolution.C.He felt it was a m

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King Louis XVIA.He admired the revolution's principles.B.He was suspicious of the leaders of the revolution.C.He felt it was a m

uch better revolution than the American Revolution.D.He was frighten by the lower class's involvement in the revolution.

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pshichka [43] · Answer 1 · 2022-09-17T01:09:56+03:00

Answer: similarly to Lafayette or Mirabeau, Louis XVI believed in moderate way of doing this revolution. Neither Lafayette nor Mirabeau were republicans. Louis XVI was not republican. In contrast to Mirabeau or Lafayette Louis XVI was forced to call for General States (1789) because of problems with state budget (minister of finances Jacques Necker made him to make his made about it, there was no other way). Louis XVI was no republican

Explanation: Louis XVI has no free will already in 1789. He was also under the influence of much more radical right: 1) his wife Marie Antoinette (from Austrian dynasty of Habsburg), 2) his brothers : Louis de Provence, Charles d´Artois, 3) emigration (aristocracy that already during 1789, 1790 escaped to Rhineland, especially to Koblenz). When he tried to escape, he was caught with all his family in Varennes, and then executed (January 1793).