The King of France, Louis XIV

The king had been able to swallow the political concessions that had been required of him because that was the path of least resistance. But like the rest of france, this business about the church was starting to erode his ability to work with the revolutionaries. The first public signal that louis was not completely on board with the civil constitution or the civic oath came in early february 17 91 when two of his aunts requested permission to travel to rome for holy week now under the new enlightened regim.