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

Content: 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
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In short, because he tried to flee. In 1789 a mob of Parisian women marched on the Palace of Versailles. The king and his family were marched to Paris, to live in the Tuileries Palace in Paris. This was because the revolutionaries thought that they could keep a better eye on him. Most people didn't despise the king per se, but most absolutely hated the Ancien Regime. The revolutionaries thought that they could bring the king round to support the revolution; at this point republicanism was confined to the Parisian coffee houses - places where political clubs would meet and debate and discuss th
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In short, because he tried to flee.