Totalitarianism in all it’s forms is EVIL.
That includes even a benign French ruler.
It is beyond me how it is that today some still can rationalize that Monarchy is an acceptable form of government. I know some that still do that, but to even think of it is an instant head shake for me.
“Totalitarianism” is the term applied to an ideological government divorced from national goals, such as the USSR. Monarchy has nothing to do with dictatorships nor totalitarianism. It has everything to do with legitimacy.
Monarchy is a national government with one man given the charge of his country inmolested by political concerns. I am a monarchist and every right-thinking American should be, too. This is the most natural, most able to do long term strategic thinking form of government. Individual monarchs can fail; Louis XVI surely failed. But what replaces monarchies is typically worse, because what replaces a monarchy is invariably a demagogue state run by unelected and often foreign elite.
America is a special case, as it was a colony mismanaged by George III. America is still to find its road to functional monarchy; it will probably be a long one. In fact, we haven’t build true feudalism yet: we still don’t have a free domestic market for contractual civic service, and in fact our system of local government is crumbling.