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* Creator/MikeDuncan has some nice things to say about Louis as a human being, but nearly none about him as a politician in his Podcast/{{Revolutions}} podcast.
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* Creator/MikeDuncan has some nice things to say about Louis as a human being, but nearly none about him as a politician in his Podcast/{{Revolutions}} podcast. While Mike will admit that the death of his son in the crucial early stages of the revolution was a pretty understandable distraction, none of his later attempts to regain control of the situation really worked.
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His death by execution marked the end of the Ancien Régime, absolute monarchy, and feudalism. It was also the death knell of the DivineRightOfKings as a concept of sovereignty, at least in Western Europe (it would hang on in Russia for another century, but [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions that ended]] [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober even worse]]).
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His death by execution marked the end of the Ancien Régime, absolute monarchy, and feudalism. It was also the death knell of the DivineRightOfKings as a concept of sovereignty, at least in Western Europe UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} (it would hang on in Russia UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia for another century, but [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions that ended]] [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober even worse]]).
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* TheDitherer: Generally agreed to be Louis's FatalFlaw. He could probably have forged an alliance with the rising tide of enlightenment politicians in the Third Estate and ruled happily as a constitutional monarch who nonetheless enjoyed broad powers within the new order, or cracked down on them and cemented royal power through force. But sadly, because Louis was a weathervane who wanted to be loved and blew with the wind, he tended to agree with the last person who talked to him, and this vacillation ultimately led him to his doom.
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* TheDitherer: Generally agreed to be Louis's FatalFlaw. He could probably have forged an alliance with the rising tide of enlightenment politicians in the Third Estate and ruled happily as a constitutional semi-constitutional monarch who nonetheless enjoyed broad powers within the new order, or cracked down on them and cemented royal power through force. But sadly, because Louis was a weathervane who wanted to be loved and blew with the wind, he tended to agree with the last person who talked to him, and this vacillation ultimately led him to his doom.
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* TheDitherer: Generally agreed to be Louis's FatalFlaw. He could probably have forged an alliance with the rising tide of enlightenment politicians in the Third Estate and ruled happily as a constitutional monarch who nonetheless enjoyed broad powers within the new order, or cracked down on them and cemented royal power through force. But sadly, because Louis was a weathervane who wanted to be loved and blew with the wind, he tended to agree with the last person who talked to him, and this vacillation ultimately led him to his doom.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Most modern works featuring him make him a very nice guy, but just not king material.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Most modern works featuring him make him a very nice guy, but just not king material. The page quote more or less sums up the modern historical evaluation of him: if he was ''half'' the tyrant his critics of the time painted him as, he very likely would have left the Revolution with his head intact, but his timid nature and constantly waffling on his public stance regarding the Revolution meant he never had control of the situation, and this eventually consumed him and his family.
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* ''[[Film/Napoleon1955 Napoléon]]'' (1955), played by Gilbert Bokanowski.
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* ''ComicBook/JourJ'': An AlternateHistory where the royal family escapes in the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon... but Louis still dies from a stray bullet to the gut.
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* ''ComicBook/JourJ'': An AlternateHistory where the royal family escapes in the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon... but Louis still dies from a [[MurphysBullet stray bullet bullet]] to the gut.
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* ''Marie Antoinette'' (1938), played by Creator/RobertMorley.
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* ''Marie Antoinette'' ''Film/{{Marie Antoinette|1938}}'' (1938), played by Creator/RobertMorley.
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* ''Film/JeanneDuBarry'' - Played by Diego Le Fur.
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* ''Marie Antoinette: Reine d'un seul amour'' (1989 MadeForTVMovie), played by Dominique Besnehard.
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* ''Marie Antoinette: Reine d'un seul amour'' ''Film/{{Marie Antoinette|1989}}'' (1989 MadeForTVMovie), played by Dominique Besnehard.
