Людовик XVI

Li͡udovik XVI (1754-1793) - korolʹ, dli͡a kotorogo samym vazhnym sversheniem v zhizni stala smertʹ. Slishkom dobryĭ i pori͡adochnyĭ, on ne smog vovremi͡a predotvratitʹ revoli͡ut͡sii͡u ili reshitelʹno raspravitʹsi͡a s ee razzhigateli͡ami, vsemi silami starai͡asʹ izbezhatʹ krovavogo nasilii͡a i v itoge stav odnoĭ iz pervykh ego zhertv. Miroli͡ubivyĭ monarkh, kotoryĭ v inoe vremi͡a stal by prosveshchennym reformatorom, spokoĭno prini͡al svoĭ prigovor, vynesennyĭ i privedennyĭ v ispolnenie opʹi͡anennym svobodoĭ narodom, voĭdi͡a v istorii͡u kak slabyĭ pravitelʹ, no dostoĭnyĭ chelovek.

Louis XVI (1754-1793) — king, for whom the most important accomplishment in life was death. Too kind and decent, he could not in time to prevent a revolution or to deal decisively with its instigators, all the forces trying to avoid bloody violence and eventually becoming one of its first victims. Peace-loving monarch, who in another time would become an enlightened reformer, quietly accepted the sentence imposed and enforced dazzled by the freedom of the people, went down to history as a weak ruler, but a decent man.