What is one reason the french revolution happened?

Answer 1

King Louis XVI was an inept and often indecisive ruler and his wife Marie Antoinette was Austrian so the French people wanted them gone.

France had built up a huge debt in the past and was faced with economic collapse, food shortages and riots.

Answer 2

Famine, the unjust system of Ancien reigime, The ideas of Philosphes, Financial Crisis and new ideas eg The American revolution and the tennis court oath.
Resentment of royal absolutism, the levy on crops impose and collected by the Roman Catholic Church, widespread famine, malnutrition, high unemployment and the national debt. P.Figueras

Answer 3

The French king, Louis XVI was weak and indecisive. A big problem that the peasants were facing was serfdom, as well as feudalism, in which they had to pay fees to higher nobles. France was also going through a very large economic crisis as well, because Louis XIV had entered so many wars that it depleted France's reserves. This debt caused prices to rise almost exponentially, and the urban poor, who lived almost solely on bread, became irritated with their monarch's inability to help them survive.

In the Estates General, France's weak but only governing body, there was a motion to make voting by person, not estate. There were three "estates:" clergy, nobles, and the rest of France. Normally each estate got a vote, which means that almost all of the time the third estate (the rest of France) was outvoted. If vote was by population, however, the third estate would have a majority.

When this was denied, the Third Estate separated from the Estates General and created the National Assembly. This was the "official start" of the French Revolution.

Answer 4

Primarily because of the pending economic collapse of France.

Answer 5

There were many reasons that caused the French Revolution to uprise such as:

Taxes

Social classes

Hunger

Monarchies