LOUIS XVI OF FRANCE.

Louis' indecisiveness and conversatism led some elements of the people of France eventually to view him as a symbol of the perceived tyranny of the ancien régime, and his popularity detroiated progressively. His disastrous flight to Varennes in June 1791, four months before the constitutional monarchy was declared, seemed to justify the rumors tha the king tied his hopes of political salvation to the prospects of foreign invasion. The credibility of the king was deeply undertiminated and the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a Republic became an ever increasing possibility.

Louis XVI (23 August 1754 - 21 January 1793) was king of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, after wich he was subsequently King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition and execution during the French Revolution. His father Louis, Dauphin of France, was the son and heir apparent of Louis XV of France. Due to the Dauphin's death in 1765, Louis succeeded his grandfather in 1774.
The first part of Louis' regin was marked by attempts to reforme France in acordance with Enlightment ideals. This inclued efforts to abolish serfdom, remoce the taille, and increase tolerance toward non-Catholics. The French Novility reacted to the the proposed reforms with hostility, and successfuly opposed their implementation; increased discontent among the common people ensued. From 1776 Louis XVI actively supported the North America colonists, who where seeking their independence for Great Britain, wich was realized 1873 Treaty of Paris. 

The ensuing debt and finantial crisis contributed to the unpopularity of the ancien régime  wich culminated at the Estates-General of 1789. Discontent among the members of France's middle and lower classes resulted in strengthened opposition to the French aristocraty and to the absolut monarchy, of wich Louis and his queen Marie Antoinette were viwed as representative. In 1789, the Bastille was stormed during riots in Paris, and the French Revolution began.

In a context of civil and internatinal war, Louis was suspended and arrested as part of the inserruction of 10 August 1972, just one month before the constitutinal monarchy was abolished and a republic declared. He was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of high treason, and excused by guillotine on 21 Juanary 1793 as a desacralized French citizen known as "Citizen Louis Capet", a nickname in reference a Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian dynasty-wich the revolutinaries interpreted as Louis' family name. In the mean time, the French Republic had been proclaimed 21 September1972. Louis XVI is the only king of France ever to be executed, and his death brought an end to more than a thousand years of continious French monarchy.

 

FRIDA KAHLO

Frida Kahlo (Coyoacán, 6th july 1907- Coyoacán, 13th july 1954) was a Mexican painter.
Her father was German, and her mother was Mexican. She had a lot of sisters.
She suffered poliomyelitis in 1913. Then, she had illnesses and wounds, that forced her to stay nine months in bed.
She developed in a different way from other children. Some of her paintings reflect the loneliness of her childhood.
She studied  in the German School until 1921. In 1922, she went to the Preparatory National School in Mexico City. She was in a group of people that protested against injustices.
On 17th September 1925, she had a bus accident. Her backbone was broken in three parts. She had to be operated 32 times throughout her life.
In the following years, she painted portraits. She became to frequent politic and intelectual atmospheres.
Frida met Diego Rivera (member of the Communist Party) who painted too. He loved Frida's paintings.
They got married on 21st August 1929. In 1930, she was pregnant for the first time, but the pregnancy had to be stopped.
Diego had a romance with Cristina,  Frida's sister. This affected Frida a lot. Frida had some romantic relationships with men and women (she was bisexual.)
In 1938, André Bretón (a surrealist poet and essayist) qualified her work as surrealist. But she said: "I've never painted my dreams. I've painted my own reality".
On 6th November 1939, Diego and Frida divorced. Frida was depressed, and she started to consume alcohol.
Years later, they got married again , but they excluded sex of their relationship.
Frida exhibited paintings in New York, Boston Philadelphia...
In 1950, she was hospitalized in Mexico City. She attempted suicide.
She had to stay in a wheelchair.
Her last painting was an oil painting called: VIVA LA VIDA.
In all of her paintings, she projected her difficulties to survive.