Xvi

The revolutionary government, while raising troops from the masses and fighting a defensive battle, established a republic and executed Louis XVI.

Pope Benedict XVI has resigned.

King Louis XVI was guillotined.

Louis XVI was executed during the French Revolution.

During the reigns of Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, France supported the English colonists in their resistance against the London government not because of an admiration for democracy but because the French wanted to weaken the British, who, for a long period of time, had been the enemies of the Government of France.