You must have gone to a liberal Big 10/Pac 10 Univeristy. The French Monarchy at that time were the most enlightened in all of Continental Europe. The concessions they made for the republic were incredible for the time. By the way, it was not Marie Antoinette who said, “Let them eat cake!” Do you even know who it was?
By the way, that’s for any monarch. Off with their head if they claim a right to rule. And an enlightened monarch is still crap. It’s someone, standing above you by force, who says they will be kind to you if you obey.
France is better because they threw off the monarchy and the Vatican.