ving the nobles rights over the serfs and peasants.Another law reduced the power of the church by not allowing the church to own farmingland. The National Assembly was the name they used when the third estate broke awayand gave themselves power, but that is a different story. By giving the Estates-Generalpower, Louis XVI got the peoples ideas into the French government. One of the wants of the insurgents in France was the removal of the monarchy altogether.To satisfy the wants of the revolutionaries, Louis XVI stepped down from the throne. Heactually did this because of a measure taken by the National Assembly on August 10,1792, which abolished the monarchy. Louis declared, "let us (him, his family, and cabinet)go and make this last sacrifice to the Nation." Yet Louis still had to make one last sacrificeto his country. The National Assembly voted by a one vote margin to put Louis XVI todeath. Immediately before his death, he spoke to the people saying, "I hope that theshedding of my blood will contribute to the happiness of France and you . . ." Then hishead was cut off in a guillotine. What Louis XVI said at the time of the end of themonarchy and his death shows he was in favor of improving France and satisfying thepeople. Louis XVI's job as the King during and before the French Revolution was not an easy one.With a betraying wife and bad ministers, Louis still managed to make the best of a badsituation. The calling of the Estates-General was a major change for the better. Theabolition of feudalism was also a much needed alteration. Then came the fall of themonarchy and eventually the death of the Louis. It turned out that more than the ideas ofLouis would've been necessary to stop the bloodshed of the French Revolution. Still,Louis XVI's deeds were ones of good intention for France, all in hopes no blood would beshed....
