Louis the Sixteenth's Great Sin Was Flexibility

Louis the sixteenth was not a bad man. He wasn't even a particularly bad king. His great sin was over flexibility. The slightest pushback, and he bent whichever way you wanted him to bend. Louis just didn't have the spine to do what needed to be done. This running indecisiveness made a mess of things. Once the revolution got going, one minute he was embracing the revolution, the next minute he was rejecting it. And he was tragically prone to taking the wrong advice at any given moment. Had he stuck to his guns and had their back, maybe things would have turned out different. But any time things got rough, louis put his guns down. Next