Five political cause of French Revolution
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The government ran out of money after 20 years of intermittent warfare and had to call the National Assembly to raise taxes. Dilettante aristocratic idealists inspired by the American example saw this as an opportunity to introduce Enlightenment principles to monarchical governance, while provincial assemblies (parlements), many dominated by local titled families, sought to get out of the situation whatever local wins they could. At the highest levels of government the traditional vicious personal political machinations and Court intrigues went on around the the monarch, currently the rather anodyne, if amiable, Louis XVI, together with his glamorous queen, the Austrian Marie-Antoinette. Meanwhile a series of disastrous harvests led to widespread popular unrest, particularly among the formidable Paris city mob, soon weaponised via libertarian rhetoric by populist politicians. The stage was set