What Caused The French Revolution

The French Revolution is a period in the History of France, covering the years of 1789-1799, in which the monarchy was overthrown and radical restricting was forced upon the Roman Catholic Church. The French Revolution had many causes and affected the entire world in different ways. Some of the main causes of the revolution were the influence of the Enlightenment thinkers, the involvement of France in foreign revolutionary wars, the fall of the French Monarchy, the unmanageable national debt, and the scarcity of food in the years immediately before the revolution.
In the years leading up to the French revolution France was stricken with financial problems caused by the wars of King Louis XIV and the wars that he fought in the 18th century. The reason for the extreme amount of debt was the tax system of France was because France was a society
The majority of the nation’s destitute citizens experienced hunger and malnutrition due to rising bread prices and several years of poor grain harvest due to El Nino rains and volcanic activities at Laki and Grimsvotn. A poor transportation system hindered shipment of bulk foods from the country side to the populous urban centers ("Enlightenment and the French Revolution" StudyMode.com. 09 2011. 2011. 09 2011 .) The scarcity of food caused death throughout France. The scarcity was mainly caused by the high taxes that the peasants and middle class had to pay. The peasants that owned land had to pay more taxes than anyone else, and they had little money to buy food for their family. Another reason for the scarcity was because King Louis XVI loaned a large amount of money to the American Revolution and was never reimbursed. This caused a large amount of debt in France and the large food scarcity that was one of the reasons that the people of France was enraged and ready for a revolution. The scarcity in France continued until the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte in