Inequalities Leading To The French Revolution

Some of the major inequalities which existed in France in the 1700s were that the people were divided into three large groups, everything depends how is your economic status. They were two two estates had privileges for example access to high offices and exemption of taxes, those privileges weren't granted to the third. The Roman Catholic Church was the first estate which help poor people with education and relief services. The second estate were the rich nobles they own a 20 percent of land and paid almost no taxes. The third estate was the lowest and was three groups divided, first group were the bourgeoisie (middle class) that were the professionals workers, the second group was the worker of France the ones the do the domestic work and then the third was the peasants. In conclusion France in the 1700s had a lot of inequalities because that rich people didn't pay taxes at all, and then the poor used to pay a lot of taxes it wasn't fair the peasants and the poor people pay what rich people do. Besides it wasn't fair that not all the people have the privilege to study and learn.

2 How did Louis XVI weak leadership lead to the French Revolution?
He didn't pay to much attention to the government advisers and he didn't look at details of governing he didn't have patience to do it. He have a wife the queen which only give him more problem, she was always giving him poor advice. The queen used to spend a lot of money in clothes and then Louis was with no money left all the problems of the government and more his wife spending a lot of money. In conclusion Louis XVI didn't have what is needed to control France, he left France without money and push the french