Why was French revolution started?
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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.
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Because of the things done by Louis XVI. He has drained his treasury and was receiving all the taxes from the third estate( he had distributed the country into 3 estates). Only members of 3 estate had burden of taxes onto them. And because of Bastille prison as it stoof for the despotic powers of the king. Because of the substance crisis and many economic problems in the country. Women didn't have right to vote and not even all people had right to vote.. 1 estate had only 1 vote and as 1st and 2nd estate always had decisions in their favor.
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