Louis and Antoinette Author:Vincent Cronin Louis XVI of France has generally been protrayed as a nonentity - an ineffectual monarch. Mr. Cronin traces this most dramatic of reigns from the time Louis XVI succeeded his grandfather at age nineteen, through the period of the reforms achieved against intense opposition, to the outbreak of the Revoutions, the heartbreaking flight to Varennes,... more » and the trial and execution of Louis, then Antoinette.« less