Overview; CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION
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- Created on: 22-12-20 18:10
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- Causes of the French Revolution
- LONG TERM
- Structure of Ancien Regime
- Society of Ancien Regime
- The enlightenment
- Adult literacy in France 1789 = 50%
- LIBERALISM; free speech, democracy, nature. VOLTAIRE
- Encyclopedia; Diderot, 140+ contributors, 1st = 1752 35th = 1780
- SHORT TERM
- Financial Crisis
- govt were bankrupt and could not fund reforms for public
- resentment
- 1) Overspending and borrowing to fund wars
- 2) corrupt tax collections, didn't go to govt
- 3) nobility ignored attempt of reform
- govt were bankrupt and could not fund reforms for public
- Political Crisis
- highlighted limitations and weaknesses of monarchy
- Louis' inabiltiy to control govt and their reforms = collapse in order
- Failure to secure reform = paralysis of govt
- Economic Crisis
- Bad harvests; 1778-9 1781-2 1785-6
- RISE in food prices = LESS demand for manufactured goods
- Bad harvests; 1778-9 1781-2 1785-6
- Production/ employment in textiles industry fell my 50% in 1789
- Eden Treaty 1786 = reduced import rates
- Public blamed titheowners and landlords for worsening situtaion
- accused of hoarding grain
- CONFLICT AND RESENTMENT
- Financial Crisis
- LONG TERM
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