French Revolution
There are Four main causes too the french Revolution
- Debt
- Taxation
- Failure to reform
- Famine
Debt
- The French Government was around 8 to 12 billion livre their currency
- Louis the 8th spent a lot on very luxurious items, instead of being financially corrent
- Also they had war debts from the Seven year;s war with england 1756 - 1763
- Much of there debt was complied becuase they were not exploring
- England was using the colonies as a steady source of income
- France didnt really use mercantilism at the tiime like England
Taxation
- at the time was heavily involved in trading (good)
- however to be a great trading country, you cannot have high tariffs. so you need to tax the poor people heavily (bad)
- Masses of people in France didnt like this
Failure to Reform
- Some French "economists" stated that the nobles should be included in taxation
- That plan backfired, as peasants had to pay evem more
- France stuck to the plan digging them further and further into debt
Famine
- Crop failure in the 1780's didn't help much either
- supply and demand occurs here with bread.
- got to the point where peasants thought the crown wished for them to die
Guillotine
- Structure for Death
- the guilty person would be locked in the contraption
- it lasted a long time after the revolution up until about 30 years ago
Marie Antoninette
- Born in Vienna Austira
- Married Louis the XVI
- became the queen of France
- Had two sons and two dughteres
- very popular in the beginning
- at the end very unpopular
- executed by the guillotine
Napolean
- Military leader
- Became the emperor of France in 1804
- Known for
- Napoleonic Code
- Height
- battle tactics
- Waterloo
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