Assignment I: Causes Of The French Revolution
Assignment I: Causes of the French Revolution
There was not one single decisive reason that was unequivocally responsible for the French Revolution. Many years of feudal repression and economic negligence were factors as to why the general public of France were ripe for revolt. There were also various class orders of people that participated in various ways in propelling the nation into a Revolution, with direct and indirect actions. Documenting a descending fiscal record in the late 1700s, King Louis XVI consulted financial consultants to evaluate the damaged French treasury. Every consultant gave the king the same proposal—that France required a fundamental modification in the methods of taxation on the public—and afterward, all consultants were promptly dismissed.
Ultimately, King Louis XVI recognized that the taxation dilemma actually needed to be dealt with, so he selected a new Controller General of Finances and First Minister, Charles de Calonne. Calonne was a French statesman whose pains to restructure the configuration of his nation’s finance administration hastened the governmental disaster that eventually led to the Revolution. Calonne recommended that France start …show more content…
Louis XVI was both aloof and antagonistic, and had no sincere need or desire to relate to his subjects. He was seldom seen by the population and almost certainly did not have much interest for their concerns or troubles. In contrast, Marie Antoinette, the queen and wife of Louis XVI, was perceived as a promiscuous, frivolous foreigner. The population constantly circulated pornographic pamphlets about the Queen, and used her as a scapegoat for many of the financial troubles in the country. The assumption is that if the Monarchy were not running the country, the events surrounding the Revolution would have had a completely different outcome. (Lefebvre,
There was not one single decisive reason that was unequivocally responsible for the French Revolution. Many years of feudal repression and economic negligence were factors as to why the general public of France were ripe for revolt. There were also various class orders of people that participated in various ways in propelling the nation into a Revolution, with direct and indirect actions. Documenting a descending fiscal record in the late 1700s, King Louis XVI consulted financial consultants to evaluate the damaged French treasury. Every consultant gave the king the same proposal—that France required a fundamental modification in the methods of taxation on the public—and afterward, all consultants were promptly dismissed.
Ultimately, King Louis XVI recognized that the taxation dilemma actually needed to be dealt with, so he selected a new Controller General of Finances and First Minister, Charles de Calonne. Calonne was a French statesman whose pains to restructure the configuration of his nation’s finance administration hastened the governmental disaster that eventually led to the Revolution. Calonne recommended that France start …show more content…
Louis XVI was both aloof and antagonistic, and had no sincere need or desire to relate to his subjects. He was seldom seen by the population and almost certainly did not have much interest for their concerns or troubles. In contrast, Marie Antoinette, the queen and wife of Louis XVI, was perceived as a promiscuous, frivolous foreigner. The population constantly circulated pornographic pamphlets about the Queen, and used her as a scapegoat for many of the financial troubles in the country. The assumption is that if the Monarchy were not running the country, the events surrounding the Revolution would have had a completely different outcome. (Lefebvre,