What is Louis XVI?
{{Infobox royalty |name = Louis XVI |image = Antoine-François Callet - Louis XVI, roi de France et de Navarre (1754-1793), revêtu du grand costume royal en 1779 - Google Art Project.jpg | image_size = |caption = Louis XVI by [[Antoine-François Callet]] |succession = [[List of French monarchs|King of France and Navarre]] |reign = 10 May 1774 – 1 October 1791<br>({{age in years and days|1774|5|10|1791|10|1}}) |coronation = 11 June 1774 |full name = Louis Auguste de France |predecessor = [[Louis XV]] |successor = Himself as ''King of the French'' |succession1 = King of the French |reign1 = 1 October 1791 – 21 September 1792 |predecessor1= Louis XV |successor1 = [[Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy|Monarchy abolished]]<br>[[Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve]] (as President of the National Convention)<br>King of France (claimant) |succession2 = [[List of French monarchs|King of France]] (claimant) |reign2 = 21 September 1792 — 21 January 1793 |reign-type2 = Tenure |successor2 = [[Louis XVII]] (titular) |spouse = [[Marie Antoinette]] |issue = [[Marie Thérèse of France|Marie Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême]]<br> [[Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France]]<br>[[Louis XVII of France]]<br /> [[Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France|Princess Sophie]] |house =[[House of Bourbon]] |father = [[Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765)|Louis, Dauphin of France]] |mother = [[Marie Josèphe of Saxony]] |religion = [[Roman Catholicism]] |birth_date = 23 August 1754 |birth_place = [[Palace of Versailles]], France |death_date = 21 January 1793 (aged 38) |death_place = Paris, France |burial_place = [[Royal Basilica of Saint Denis]], France |burial_date = 21 January 1815 |signature = Signature of Louis XVI on 20 January 1793.jpg }} '''Louis XVI''' (23 August 1754 {{ndash}} 21 January 1793) was the [[King of France]] from 1774 until 1792,{{efn|His proper title was King of [[France]] and [[Navarre]] from 1774 to 1791 and King of the French from 1791 to 1792.}} when th