Assertion(A): Upon his accession, Louis XVI found an empty treasure.

Reason(R): Long years of war had drained the financial resources.

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Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of the assertion.

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of the assertion.

(A) is false and (R) is false.

(A) is false but (R) is true.

answer is A.

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The new monarch, Louis XVI, came into power in 1774 with an empty treasury. He belonged to the Bourbon royal dynasty. He was 20 years old at the time, and he was married to the Austrian princess Marie Antoinette.
France's financial resources have been drained through many years of war. The price of running a lavish court in the enormous palace of Versailles was added on top of it. The thirteen American colonies were supported by Louis XVI to become free of their mutual enemy, Britain. The conflict increased a debt that was already above 2 billion livres by more than a billion livres.
Hence Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of the assertion.

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