Primary Source
Louis XVI
![Portrait of King Louis XVI](/sites/default/files/af17b3ac67952d765652355c90e14ed5.jpg)
Annotation
Here was the "body politic" of the old regime. Theoretically, France existed only as an entity in the body of the King. The citizens were his subjects; the geographical parts linked together only through the monarch. Robed and wigged, he was an emblem of a centuries–old regime.
Credits
Included as part of the LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION project
https://revolution.chnm.org/d/175