What was it that Louis XVI did that cost him his head?

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Answer 1

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Louis XVI wasnt a bad person , but a poor ruler , and was in the unfortunate position of being the "link" to the older royal rule

The nail in his coffin was caused by Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick who  assembled an army at Coblenz on the Rhine. In July, the invasion commenced, with Brunswick's army easily taking the fortresses of Longwy and Verdun. The duke then issued on 25 July a proclamation called the Brunswick Manifesto, written by Louis's émigré cousin, the Prince de Condé, declaring the intent of the Austrians and Prussians to restore the king to his full powers and to treat any person or town who opposed them as rebels to be condemned to death by martial law.

Contrary to its intended purpose of strengthening the position of the king against the revolutionaries, the Brunswick Manifesto had the opposite effect of greatly undermining Louis's already highly tenuous position in Paris. It was taken by many to be the final proof of a collusion between Louis and foreign powers in a conspiracy against his own country

Louis was arrested, tried and executed for treason

Today, historians and Frenchmen in general have a more nuanced view of Louis XVI, who is seen as an honest man with good intentions, but who was probably unfit for the herculean task of reforming the monarchy, and who was used as a scapegoat by the revolutionaries

Answer 2

One belief is he gave the US too much in the way of guns, ships, etc. Because of this,( and other reasons) the French Revolution started. Immediately afterwards, the French almost started a war with the US during John Adams tenure.