What did King Louis XVI do that was offensive to France?

Answer 1

King Louis XVI was a man of good intentions, just not quite cut out to be king. He declared himself the absolute ruler of France, while not quite understanding how to run it efficiently. While the economy failed and people went starving, he sat idly by. You may have heard of his wife's famous saying, "Let them eat cake." The story behind that goes something like, as the French people were starving and without bread to eat, a man asked Mary Antoinette (Louis's wife) what was to be done about it. She replied, simply, "Let them eat cake." Louis's ideas weren't far from it. He was eventually executed, due to his ruling being entirely counterproductive.