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1779, Isle de Bourbon (Maurice & Reunion), Louis XVI. 3 Sous Coin. Unlisted date! Mint year: 1779 Mint Place: Paris (A) Denomination: 3 Sols References: KM-2. RR! Condition: Scratches, otherwise F-VF. Material: Billon (bronze and silver alloy) Diameter: 22mm Weight: 1.94gm Obverse: Value (3 SOUS) above date (1779) and mint initial (A). Legend: ISLES DE FR . ET DE BOURBON (harp) Reverse: Royal crown above three lis symbols. Legend: LOUIS XVI . R . DE (privy mark: heron) FR . ET . DE . NAV . Réunion (La Réunion, previously Île Bourbon) is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south west of Mauritius, the nearest island. Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France. Louis XVI or Louis-Auguste de France (Versailles, 23 August 1754 – Paris, 21 January 1793) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1793. Suspended and arrested during the Insurrection of 10 August, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. He was the only king of France to be executed. Although Louis was beloved at first, his indecisiveness and conservatism led some elements of the people of France to eventually view him as a symbol of the perceived tyranny of the Ancien Régime. After the abolition of the monarchy in 1793, the new republican government gave him the surname Capet, a reference to the nickname of Hugh Capet, founder of the Capetian dynasty, which the revolutionaries wrongly interpreted as a family name. He was also informally nicknamed Louis le Dernier (Louis the Last), a derisive use of the traditional nicknaming of French kings. Today, historians and French people in general have a more nuanced view of Louis XVI, who is seen as an honest man with good intentions, but who was probably unfit for the herculean task of reforming the monarchy, and who was used as a scapegoat by the revolutionaries.
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