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5 maj 2021 · The middle class resented political exclusion, the lower classes didn't want to support the current feudal system and the government was on the brink of bankruptcty. Here we take a deeper look into the main causes of the French Revolution.
29 wrz 2024 · The French Revolution had general causes common to all the revolutions of the West at the end of the 18th century and particular causes that explain why it was by far the most violent and the most universally significant of these revolutions.
Marxist historians, such as Lefebvre and Soboul, see the social tensions described here as the main cause of the revolution, as the Estates-General allowed them to manifest into tangible political action; the bourgeoisie and the lower classes were grouped into the third estate, allowing them to jointly oppose the establishment.
10 lut 2024 · Cause 1: Taxes, Land, & the Three-Estates System. The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1767. Source: Smart History. Before the revolution, French society consisted of three estates, simply known as the First Estate, the Second Estate, and the Third Estate. These estates were not taxed equally.
9 lis 2009 · Causes of the French Revolution. As the 18th century drew to a close, France’s costly involvement in the American Revolution, combined with extravagant spending by King Louis XVI, had...
Lists of major causes and effects of the French Revolution, which originated in part with the rise of the bourgeoisie and broad acceptance of reformist writings by intellectuals known as the philosophes.
12 sty 2023 · 3 main causes of the French Revolution include a financial crisis caused by mounting state debt, rampant social inequality, and the incompetence of the French monarch and the Ancien Régime (old regime).