The court of Louis XVI is stripped to a faded, festering husk of itself in "The Flood," a stark study of the king's last days in which the luxurious trappings of French monarchy disappear before ...

The dramatic events around the French king Louis XVI and the French crises in the late 1700's with no will to pay taxes, which led Louis XVI into an impossible situation as a king.

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The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing than governing, recognized that a crisis loomed.