Poor Harvests.
France
The intellectual movement in France during the 1700s that included philosophers such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot was called Enlightenment. They were called Follower of the Enlightenment. The century was called the Age of Enlightenment.
Beauty and the Beast takes place in a small town in France in an older time period like around the 1700s maybe.
France is the traditional setting for Beauty and the Beast in fairy tales and movies. The opening song of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, "Bonjour", indicates that the Disney movie is also set in France as "bonjour" is the traditional greeting in France. Since it is a Disney movie and the characters speak English and not french, that is really the only indication that I could find of suggested location in the movie.
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Poor Harvests
Extravagance of the Royal Court, and heavy taxes on the poor. It led to revolution.
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Poor Harvest
Poor Harvest
Some of the economic issues that faced France in the late 1700s were high unemployment rate, debt accumulated during the 1668 war with the British, excessive government spending, poor tax collection, poor income distribution and high inflation rates.
Poor harvests
Debts accumulated from all the wars fought against Britain since 1688
Severe poverty and starvation in the working classes which appeared to be ignored by the monarchy, and many of the aristocrats, who led a life of great wealth and luxury. This led to the Revolution, a terrible uprising by the masses, in which many aristocrats were excecuted.
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in the France in the 1700s
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