King Louis XVI was overthrown and beheaded by the guillotine.
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King Louis XVI was executed.
The King of France before the French Revolution.
==Jacques Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Maximilien de Robespierre, and Louis de Saint-Just all had critical leadership roles in bringing about and carrying out the French Revolution. Danton observed, "La révolution dévore ses enfants" [The revolution eats up its children]. And all four indeed had lost their heads by the time the revolution ended.
The French monarch in 1789 was King Louis XVI. He became King of France in 1774.
Robespierre lead the rebels and King Louis XVI was the current king of France who was sort of in charge of the Loyalists.