Louis XVI was a better and more enlightened ruler than most people think. His political achievements are: issuing the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1781 that granted equal rights and freedom of religion to Protestants and Jews, starting very necessary financial reforms, reinstating the Parliaments, and making public the Crown's financial statements.
In his foreign policy he actively supported the US colonies' struggle for independence, signing the Treaty of Alliance between the US colonies and France in 1778.
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