Causes of French Revolution
The world has seen many revolutions in history. One of the biggest revolutions was the French Revolution because it came with many consequences and influences. Nothing else like this had ever happened this powerful to change the political status quo. There are so many traces that suggest the cause of the revolution.
One of them is from Arthur Young’s Travels in France. “The confusion in the finances great; with a deficit impossible to provide for without the states-general of the kingdom.”
He is referring to the great gulf between the economic conditions of the poor and the rich and the deficit impossible to settle down due to mounting debts caused by the
Seven Years War and the participation in the American Revolutionary War. “A prince on the throne, with excellent dispositions, but without the resources of a mind.” Although
King Louis was called a king, he really did not act like one; the ill advised use of the state budget for trivial things, the slow decision making. The cost of affording a respectable or even a sustained lifestyle had shot sky high with the rise in bread prices and basic necessities.
“All taxes should be assessed on the same system throughout the nation.” (The Cahiers: Discontents of the Third Estate) The working class was obliged to pay heavy taxes to finance the government’s running. This obviously led to the feeling of resentment within the middle class who wanted a more equal system of governance in
France. “Therefore, what is the Third Estate? Everything; but an everything shackled and oppressed.” This is from a pamphlet from Abbé Sieyès called, “What Is The Third
Estate?”. Sieyès is basically saying that France would be nothing without the third estate. He says the 3rd estate is everyone, and it is more important than most people realize. “Is it not evident that the noble order has privileges and expenditures which it
dares to call its rights.” The third estate had to bear the burden of heavy taxes, while the
One of them is from Arthur Young’s Travels in France. “The confusion in the finances great; with a deficit impossible to provide for without the states-general of the kingdom.”
He is referring to the great gulf between the economic conditions of the poor and the rich and the deficit impossible to settle down due to mounting debts caused by the
Seven Years War and the participation in the American Revolutionary War. “A prince on the throne, with excellent dispositions, but without the resources of a mind.” Although
King Louis was called a king, he really did not act like one; the ill advised use of the state budget for trivial things, the slow decision making. The cost of affording a respectable or even a sustained lifestyle had shot sky high with the rise in bread prices and basic necessities.
“All taxes should be assessed on the same system throughout the nation.” (The Cahiers: Discontents of the Third Estate) The working class was obliged to pay heavy taxes to finance the government’s running. This obviously led to the feeling of resentment within the middle class who wanted a more equal system of governance in
France. “Therefore, what is the Third Estate? Everything; but an everything shackled and oppressed.” This is from a pamphlet from Abbé Sieyès called, “What Is The Third
Estate?”. Sieyès is basically saying that France would be nothing without the third estate. He says the 3rd estate is everyone, and it is more important than most people realize. “Is it not evident that the noble order has privileges and expenditures which it
dares to call its rights.” The third estate had to bear the burden of heavy taxes, while the