Was Louis XVI a good person?

Explore the rich and historic life of Louis XVI, the last Bourbon king of France and a high-profile victim of the French Revolution, at Biography.com. ... By the mid-1780s the country was near bankruptcy, which forced the king to support radical fiscal reforms not favorable with the nobles or the people. read more

Louis XVI was a devout and kind man. During the winters, he would let peasants into the Royal Kitchen to feed them. He refused to take a mistress, remaining faithful to Marie-Antoinette. read more

Louis XVI is usually depicted as rather a weak sort of king not really able to wield the strong centralized state that his ancestors (with the help of Cardinal Richelieu a few generations prior) had crafted. read more

The islands of Tobago and Grenada were taken from the British (Tobago being retained by France along with Senegal in the final settlement) but, to some extent, Louis XVI was undercut by his American allies who made a separate peace with Great Britain and effectively thwarted the greatest ambition King Louis had for the conflict which was the recovery of Canada. read more