Both Uses of
Louis XVI
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Oh, I would rather mount the scaffold of my brother, Louis XVI.†
Chpt 11-12 *
- Meanwhile Monte Cristo had rapidly taken off his great-coat, waistcoat, and shirt, and one might distinguish by the glimmering through the open panel that he wore a pliant tunic of steel mail, of which the last in France, where daggers are no longer dreaded, was worn by King Louis XVI.†
Chpt 81-82
Definition:
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(Louis XVI) king of France from 1774 to 1792; his failure to grant reforms led to the French Revolution; he and his queen (Marie Antoinette) were guillotined (1754-1793)