The Life of Louis XVI | How a Shy Second Son Became the Last King of France | History for Sleep

Almost everyone has heard the name Louis the Sixteenth, and almost no one has truly met the man behind it. He was not born to be king. He was a shy, short-sighted second son, growing up in the long galleries of Versailles, with no expectation of the throne until a series of quiet deaths inside his own family changed everything. This video follows the entire arc of his life, from his birth at Versailles in August 1754 to his final years as king during the French Revolution. It covers his childhood under Louis XV, his marriage to Marie Antoinette, the weight of a reign he was never prepared for, and the slow unravelling of the world he had inherited. This is the story behind the scaffold and the caricature, told calmly and in full, from the very beginning. Settle in and let the eighteenth century come quietly forward.