Title: Why was Louis XVI executed? - Quora
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Why was Louis XVI executed?
Noah Wiener

Content: So you can kind of see how Louis, now in Paris, might have feared for his life surrounded by people who had shown a willingness to physically harm at the very least his wife and protected by guards who were demonstrably unwilling to protect him, might have had his attitude towards the Revolution somewhat soured. This incident led to the cycle of events that ended with Louis at the guillotine. So, why was Louis XVI executed? It wasn’t because he betrayed the Revolution, it was because the Revolution betrayed him. The soldiers of the Revolution showed no willingness to protect him and his family including children against a mob who had come based on a conspiracy theory. Louis believed, and I agree, that the Revolutionary government was never able to establish itself as fitting any description of a functioning government. His execution was the culmination of a paranoia among French society on all levels that there was a conspiracy to overthrow the government (which there was, to be fair, but it didn't involve the King and never had a realistic chance of success). He wasn’t a traitor, the Revolution betrayed him. James Burton
Answered 5 years ago
In short, because he tried to flee. In 1789 a mob of Parisian women marched on the Palace of Versailles.