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During the reign of King Louis XVI and his wife Queen Marie Antoinette, revolutionary ideas grew fast, as the Frenchhelped America fight their revolution that freed them from a government that was unwanted. France was bankrupt, and the people were starving. They saw their monarchs, the nobles and the aristocracy live in all wealth and became resentful. What they did not understand though, was that their monarchy was based on the "ancien regime" and the monarchs were brought up to reign as they did. Also, Louis XVI tried everything he could possibly do to make things better, and even tried to make the nobles and the aristocracy pay taxes just like the bourgeoisie, but they turned against him as they saw it as their privilege by birth not to pay taxes just like the commoners (eventhough they were the richest!). Eventually, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were unjustly seen as tyrants who were to be murdered. They were both beheaded. Their son (the crownprince) died in captivity after years of abuse. Only their daughter got away.

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