What were the causes for the empty treasury of france under louis16 ? Assess any three causes?
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The reasons for the empty treasure found by Louis XVI are:
•long years war had drained the financial resources of France.
•Added to this was the cost of maintaining an extravagant court at the immense palace of Versailles.
•Under Louis XVI France helped thirteen American colonies to gain independence from the common enemy, Britain.
•The war added more than a billion livres to a debt that had already risen to more than 2 billion livres.
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