1. Describe the circumstances leading to the outbreak of revolutionary protest
in France.
Answers
Answer:
social inequality
estate system was abolished
clergy, nobility, merchants buisennes mn etc..
political causes
food shortages..
drained the financial of france
Answer:
causes of the french revolution
1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state
2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.
3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street;” the broadening influence of public opinion.
4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie
5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi
6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.