Who was the King of France at the time of the French Revolution ?

The correct answer is Louis XVI

Louis XVI was the King of France at the time of the French Revolution. 

Louis XVI: 

• He is the French king who belongs to the Bourbon dynasty who took the royalty in 1774.
• He had inherited massive tax structure & debt problems and it was unable to fix them. 
• As the 18th century drew to close, the extravagant spending by King Louis XVI and his predecessor is the & France's costly involvement in the American Revolution left the country in the frame of bankruptcy. 
• In the fall of 1786, Charles Alexandre de Calonne who is the King Louis XVI’s controller general is proposed a financial stability package that is a universal land tax from which the privileged classes would no longer be exempt. 

French Revolution: 

•  The French Revolution(1789-1799) was a shadow event that changed Europe's scenario, following in the footsteps of the Revolution in America, which had occurred just a decade earlier.
• In modern European history, the French Revolution was a vital event that started in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s.
• In the revolution, a huge of giant wars had taken place in the forty years leading up to the Revolution, and in most of them, France had participated.
• The costs of supporting allies, waging war, and maintaining the army quickly depleted crisis in the country's wealth that was already poor from royal extravagance.
• Finally, the thought of King Louis XVI had absolute power due to the divine right of the idea in a time of highly secularized enlightenment.