peasants rarely make revolutions. Peasants are too busy. revolutions are made by the Middle Class - mostly lawyers, with the help of the urban proletariat. In the French Revolution, the chief representatives of the peasants wee not even in the Third Estate; they were the country priests. And as they were outvoted even in their own Estate, nobody had to listen to them. besides, revolutions (check his out) happen in the time of year between haymaking and harvest, when peasants are just too busy.
France had a major National debt and high taxation.
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Perhaps with the beginning of the Reign of Terror.
When the French agreed to assist the colonists.
An example of this would be the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789. This was when French peasants went into the Bastille, a prison, to get gunpowder and weapons.
France had a major National debt and high taxation.
A major result of the French revolution was that the middle class gained political influence.
The major players in the French revolution were the Jesuits, the Jansentists, the monarch, specificially Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, the ghosts of the philosophes - particularly Voltaire and Rousseau, Talleyrand, and thousands of common men who lost their minds and destroyed centuries of history and religion in a very short time.
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Some major causes of the French Revolution were incapable rulers, unbalanced Estates General, economic collapse, Enlightenment ideas, and wasteful royalty.
Yes. The issuing of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789 was a major catalyst for the French Revolution.
Yes. The issuing of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789 was a major catalyst for the French Revolution.
The regicide of Louis XVI.