text: Alternatively, Louis's critics attribute the social upheaval culminating in the French Revolution to his failure to reform French 
  institutions while the monarchy was still secure. Other scholars counter that there was little reason to reform institutions that 
  largely worked well under Louis. They also maintain that events occurring almost 80 years after his death were not reasonably 
  foreseeable to Louis and that in any case, his successors had sufficient time to initiate reforms of their own.[135] 
  
  Louis has often been criticised for his vanity. The memoirist Saint-Simon, who claimed 
  that Louis slighted him, criticised him thus: 
  
  There was nothing he liked so much as flattery, or, to put it more plainly, 
  adulation; the coarser and clumsier it was, the more he relished it. 