[JRandomFreeper]

"L'État, c'est moi" -- Louis XIV

In the long run... that kind of thinking led to M. Doctor Guillotine's device being used for political purposes.

/johnny

[muawiyah]

Actually the guillotine was used on Louis XVI, a man who actually supported the expansion of democratic governmental forms and the opening of French society to the dispossesed.

After that was a brief return to Louis XIV's form of government and 'la Grande Terreur' ~ that was followed by the Thermidorian reaction, etc.

Louis XVI in his last days was both defended by his cousins the Bouille family (see Lafayette) and hounded by his cousins, the Bouille family. There are dozens of folks by that family name in and around the French royal family in the early 1790s. They tried to save the king right down to the very end.

Admiral Bouille, a hero to Americans in the Revolution is actually condemned personally in the French national anthem. Stand only out of respect for the law ~ not for what they are singing ~ and never sing the song along with them. It is unpatriotic, and in some quarters, treasonous behavior!