Middle And Middle Classes During The French Revolution

In this paragraph, I argue that the middle and lower classes were an integral component in forming the French Revolution, as they were regarded as inferior, burdened by taxation, poor markets, and an inadequate economy. Through the financial crisis, social catastrophe, political predicaments, and the monarchy’s power, the lower and middle classes were the first to be harmed. The standard of live for the impoverished during this time was inexpressibly difficult. “Comprising perhaps an unbelievable 40 percent of the national population, they made their living, such as it was, by public and private charity for the most part. They squatted on wastelands and forests, huddles by church doors, slept under bridges or in dosshouses, their only possessions a few miserable rags.
Economic inequality was sparked by the outrageous acts committed by the monarchy, as the impoverished deteriorated into further destitute, and, in result, the wealthy nobles became opulent and lavish in their way of living. Peasants, and those aspiring to be part of the bourgeoisie, were burdened with exceedingly high taxes to support the French monarchy. “Peasants who were not self-sufficient had to buy a proportion of their needs and so were hit by the 62 percent price increase over taxes that took place between 1749 and the 1780s… The peasants bore proportionately more of the burden than any other group. They alone enjoyed no sort of exemption; they alone bore the full burden of the gabelle (state salt monopoly) or the draw for the militia.” The cost of living was inexorable, thus the quality of living plummeted. All the hindrances caused by the government put an unfair burden on the lower