Describe the circumstances leading to the outbreak of revolutionary protest in France
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SOCIAL CAUSES OR SOCIAL CONDITION
1) The French Revolution was an uprising of the French people against autocracy and aristocracy . The French society was a feudal one ridden with Inequities.
2) The clergy and the nobles belonged to the privileged class . They led a life of luxury and they exploited the common people.
POLITICAL CAUSES OR POLITICAL CONDITION
1) The king of France were absolute rulers. They believed in the Theory of Divine Rights of kingship . They claimed themselves to be the representatives of God on the earth .
2) There were different laws in different areas and absence of any uniform system made the confusion worse confounded . People were really fed up with such a rotten system of government.
ECONOMIC CAUSES OR ECONOMIC CONDITION
1) They clergy and nobility were able to pay taxes , but they were completely exempted from all the taxes.
2) The common people were too poor to pay taxes. The corrupt system of taxes made the people unhappy.
PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSE
1) In the second part of the 18th century , there was an intellectual Renaissance in the France . The Great French philosophers like Montesquieu , Rousseau and Voltaire exploited the social shortcomings. They fanned the flame of revolution .
2) The American Revolution and Declaration of independence by American Revolutionaries roused the people of France to overthrow the oppressive king and his nobility .
IMMEDIATE CAUSE
In 1788 , there spread a severe famine in many parts of France. People suffering from hunger assembled in streets of Paris. The state treasure had fallen empty. Emperor Louis XVI was compelled to summon a meeting of the Estate General in 1789 after a lapse of 175 years . The first two Estates i.e., the clergy and nobility refused to have a common meeting with the Third Estate . It generated much excitement and lost their temper . With the meeting of Estate General on the 5th May , 1789 the French Revolution began .
1) The French Revolution was an uprising of the French people against autocracy and aristocracy . The French society was a feudal one ridden with Inequities.
2) The clergy and the nobles belonged to the privileged class . They led a life of luxury and they exploited the common people.
POLITICAL CAUSES OR POLITICAL CONDITION
1) The king of France were absolute rulers. They believed in the Theory of Divine Rights of kingship . They claimed themselves to be the representatives of God on the earth .
2) There were different laws in different areas and absence of any uniform system made the confusion worse confounded . People were really fed up with such a rotten system of government.
ECONOMIC CAUSES OR ECONOMIC CONDITION
1) They clergy and nobility were able to pay taxes , but they were completely exempted from all the taxes.
2) The common people were too poor to pay taxes. The corrupt system of taxes made the people unhappy.
PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSE
1) In the second part of the 18th century , there was an intellectual Renaissance in the France . The Great French philosophers like Montesquieu , Rousseau and Voltaire exploited the social shortcomings. They fanned the flame of revolution .
2) The American Revolution and Declaration of independence by American Revolutionaries roused the people of France to overthrow the oppressive king and his nobility .
IMMEDIATE CAUSE
In 1788 , there spread a severe famine in many parts of France. People suffering from hunger assembled in streets of Paris. The state treasure had fallen empty. Emperor Louis XVI was compelled to summon a meeting of the Estate General in 1789 after a lapse of 175 years . The first two Estates i.e., the clergy and nobility refused to have a common meeting with the Third Estate . It generated much excitement and lost their temper . With the meeting of Estate General on the 5th May , 1789 the French Revolution began .
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The circumstances leading to the outbreak of revolutionary protest in France were: → Social Inequality: French society in the eighteenth century was divided into three estates namely The Clergy, The nobility and third estates. First two estates, that is, the clergy and the nobility enjoyed certain privileges by birth.
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