How Did King Louis Influence The French Revolution
The leadership of King Louis continued to fail miserably when he came to an impasse with the secret meeting of the Third Estate. Louis refused to align himself with the people even though he reminded himself of previous French king’s alliance, and instead, he gave a discreet answer to the people that proved unsatisfactory and vague. His refusal to choose an order highlighted his distance from the reality of the revolution and his non-committal answer revealed to the public his deficiency of leadership. The character of Louis became more noticeable to the public eye as his speeches and answers lacked substance and passion for France. From 1787 until his decision at the Etats-Généraux, King Louis sided with the unprivileged and after the Tennis Court Oath for the new constitution, he decided to bring in the privileged classes to make compromises with the Third Estate. King Louis betrayed the Third Estate and showed them his own indecisiveness—he
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In her letters, she adopted the opinions of Barnave—one of her political influences for the Constitutional Monarchy—for the sole purpose of swaying her husband to agree. Her letters spoke for the both of them, but she only used the pronoun ‘I’. She writes “we had both thought (the King and I) that a proclamation could not be helpful to enlighten all French people on the King’s real intentions. The one I send you a copy of herewith seems to me very good.” Louis’s true political opinion hid underneath the authority and weight of his wife. The power of his wife strengthened the limitations of the monarch during the revolution and further ruined his reputation as strong. Even though Marie’s political ideas differed strongly from his own, Louis’s weak and docile personality caused him to fail miserably at maintaining his own thoughts and crawling to his wife for
In her letters, she adopted the opinions of Barnave—one of her political influences for the Constitutional Monarchy—for the sole purpose of swaying her husband to agree. Her letters spoke for the both of them, but she only used the pronoun ‘I’. She writes “we had both thought (the King and I) that a proclamation could not be helpful to enlighten all French people on the King’s real intentions. The one I send you a copy of herewith seems to me very good.” Louis’s true political opinion hid underneath the authority and weight of his wife. The power of his wife strengthened the limitations of the monarch during the revolution and further ruined his reputation as strong. Even though Marie’s political ideas differed strongly from his own, Louis’s weak and docile personality caused him to fail miserably at maintaining his own thoughts and crawling to his wife for