What were the main causes of french revolution explain in points?
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At the death of Louis XV (May 20, 1774), his successor Louis XVI found the kingdom in an almost desperate state. The faults and crimes of the Bourbons had removed all prestige from their dynasty, for which the oppressed people could have no affection. The successive bankruptcies, followed by exaggerated loans, destined to meet the mad expenses of the court, had destroyed all confidence. The maritime and military failures of the last reign had humiliated the nation, which nevertheless possessed the feeling of its strength and which considered itself to be badly directed. A disastrous crisis, a consequence of financial ruin and political decadence, could only be avoided if a firm and skilled hand seized power. Unfortunately this task was too heavy for Louis XVI.
To give satisfaction to public opinion, he began by restoring the Parliament of Paris, and this body, instead of demanding the necessary reforms, showed itself, on the contrary, the most opposed to the wishes of the nation. The ministers Turgot, Malesherbes, and Maurepas, associating their efforts, averted the fatal moment of the crisis, and might perhaps have put some order into affairs if the party of the court had not had them deposed. Necker, who became minister of finance in 1777, saw his wise plans fall before the opposition of the nobles and priests, who did not wish to participate in the offices of the state. Calonne, his successor, met with the same opposition of the two privileged classes. The king, instead of acting energetically by creating equal offices, allowed himself to be drawn into the path which was bound to lead to a revolution and not to a reform. In 1786 he appealed to the lights of an assembly of notables; this assembly, composed exclusively of privileged persons, wished to increase taxes to fill the coffers of the State; but she pretended that the people alone were subject to taxes. The notables separated in May 1787, without having tried to apply the only remedy that could be found for the ills of France: the equitable distribution of taxes.
At the end of their resources, the king decided to unite the states-general, which had not been convened for more than a century and a half. He hoped that this assembly would be as submissive as its predecessors; but France at the end of the eighteenth century was no longer that of the Valois: the bourgeoisie had been strengthened, it had become rich, educated, influential, without ceasing to be honest and active. Worthy of possessing power, she was soon going to wrest it from the nobility. It was in vain that, at the meeting of the three states, at Versailles, May 5, 1789, the deputies of the clergy united to the deputies of the nobility, wished to humiliate the deputies of the third estate. The latter, furnished with the notebooks of complaints drafted by their constituents, and resolved to boldly claim the rights of the people, whom the two privileged classes had not known since the beginning of feudalism, asked to vote by head and not by order. The king did not know how to put himself on the side of the nation, who, trembling, waiting for great events, bestowed upon him the title of restorer of liberty. He thought that it was the very dignity of his crown to support the cause of the past.
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At the death of Louis XV (May 20, 1774), his successor Louis XVI found the kingdom in an almost desperate state. The faults and crimes of the Bourbons had removed all prestige from their dynasty, for which the oppressed people could have no affection. The successive bankruptcies, followed by exaggerated loans, destined to meet the mad expenses of the court, had destroyed all confidence. The maritime and military failures of the last reign had humiliated the nation, which nevertheless possessed the feeling of its strength and which considered itself to be badly directed. A disastrous crisis, a consequence of financial ruin and political decadence, could only be avoided if a firm and skilled hand seized power. Unfortunately this task was too heavy for Louis XVI.
To give satisfaction to public opinion, he began by restoring the Parliament of Paris, and this body, instead of demanding the necessary reforms, showed itself, on the contrary, the most opposed to the wishes of the nation. The ministers Turgot, Malesherbes, and Maurepas, associating their efforts, averted the fatal moment of the crisis, and might perhaps have put some order into affairs if the party of the court had not had them deposed. Necker, who became minister of finance in 1777, saw his wise plans fall before the opposition of the nobles and priests, who did not wish to participate in the offices of the state. Calonne, his successor, met with the same opposition of the two privileged classes. The king, instead of acting energetically by creating equal offices, allowed himself to be drawn into the path which was bound to lead to a revolution and not to a reform. In 1786 he appealed to the lights of an assembly of notables; this assembly, composed exclusively of privileged persons, wished to increase taxes to fill the coffers of the State; but she pretended that the people alone were subject to taxes. The notables separated in May 1787, without having tried to apply the only remedy that could be found for the ills of France: the equitable distribution of taxes.
At the end of their resources, the king decided to unite the states-general, which had not been convened for more than a century and a half. He hoped that this assembly would be as submissive as its predecessors; but France at the end of the eighteenth century was no longer that of the Valois: the bourgeoisie had been strengthened, it had become rich, educated, influential, without ceasing to be honest and active. Worthy of possessing power, she was soon going to wrest it from the nobility. It was in vain that, at the meeting of the three states, at Versailles, May 5, 1789, the deputies of the clergy united to the deputies of the nobility, wished to humiliate the deputies of the third estate. The latter, furnished with the notebooks of complaints drafted by their constituents, and resolved to boldly claim the rights of the people, whom the two privileged classes had not known since the beginning of feudalism, asked to vote by head and not by order. The king did not know how to put himself on the side of the nation, who, trembling, waiting for great events, bestowed upon him the title of restorer of liberty. He thought that it was the very dignity of his crown to support the cause of the past.
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The Main causes of French Revolution are :-) 1 despotic rules of king Louis XVI:-) due to financial crisis King Louis XVI forced to increase taxes which was mostly paid by the people of third state which create a tension in society. 2 privileges and burdens of French society. French society was divided into three types of society :-)
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