french revolution

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History

 

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Willie N

 

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July 6, 2012

 

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As the revolution proceeded, and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these two once-allied groups would become the source of conflict and bloodshed. Causes of the French Revolution include the following * A poor economic situation and an unmanageable national debt were both caused and exacerbated by the burden of a grossly inequitable system of taxation and France's funding of the American Revolution; * A resentment of royal absolutism; * An aspiration for liberty and republicanism; * A resentment of Manorialism (seigneurialism) by peasants, wage-earners, and, to a lesser extent, the bourgeoisie; * The rise of enlightenment ideals; * Food scarcity in the months immediately before the revolution; * High unemployment and high bread prices resulting in the inability to purchase food; * A resentment of noble privilege and dominance in public life by the ambitious professional classes; * A resentment of religious intolerance; * The failure of Louis XVI to deal effectively with these phenomena...
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The French crown, which fiscally equated the French state, owed considerable debt. During the regimes of Louis XIV (ruled 1715-1774) and Louis XVI, several different ministers, including Turgot (Controller-General of Finances 1774-1776), and Jacques Necker (Director-General of Finances 1777-1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French tax system to a more uniform system...
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