King Louis XVI was weak and Queen Marie Antoinette spent money like it was nothing. Neither was a good ruler when the people were starving. They were like Tsar Nicholas when the Revolution occurred in Russia in 1917. They were proof that appointing rulers based on bloodline, hereditary, did not work.
France was an ABSOLUTE MONARCHY when the French Revolution of 1789 began.
Before the French revolution, the monarchy issued France's laws.
The French Revolution overthrew the Absolute Monarchy of France.
It was the French Revolution.
French Revolution
France was governed by a monarchy before the French revolution.
During the revolution, France was a monarchy. The King of France at that time was Louis XVI.
France was an ABSOLUTE MONARCHY when the French Revolution of 1789 began.
France abolished their monarchy for the last time in 1875.
It was an absolute monarchy.
An absolute monarchy.
Before the French revolution, the monarchy issued France's laws.
People outside of France feared that a revolution could happen to their monarchy.
The French Revolution overthrew the Absolute Monarchy of France.
The French and Indian war along with helping the American Revolution cost France large sums of money. The monarchy became unstable, there were food shortages and the French Revolution ended the monarchy.
France went from being a monarchy to a democratic republic with a President and a Constitution.
It was the French Revolution.