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What could have the French done to prevent the French Revolution?
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∙ 14y ago
A lot of researchers doubt whether the French Revolution was ever to be prevented during Louis XVI. Due to the enormous state debt he inherited from Louis XV, who on his turn inherited a huge state debt from Louis XIV, France was bankrupt. The people were poor and the nobility just kept spending because of the way they were acustomed to live their lives. None of them had actually thought about changing their lifestyle so a difference could have been made. They were actually seriously offended when Louis XVI suggested to let the nobility pay taxes as well, and not just the poor people. So, everybody complained about the finance problems, but nobody was willing to do something about it. The French felt they had to take matters into their own hands to make a change and to achieve equality, for they were the poorest and were paying the most! Louis XIV is actually the one to blame the revolution on, he has build Versailles and fought 4 major wars and left his successor, Louis XV, with a state debt of 400 millionFrancs! So the preventing of the revolution should have started with Louis XIV.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoSeeing that some of 'The French' were the people carrying out the revolution, I presume you mean 'What could the French upper classes and the French king have done to prevent it?' Those clases could have realised that the peasants and poor townspeople were downtrodden and could have spent a little less on luxury living and thus have taxed the poor less.
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Seeing that some of 'The French' were the people carrying out the revolution, I presume you mean 'What could the French upper classes and the French king have done to prevent it?' Those clases could have realised that the peasants and poor townspeople were downtrodden and could have spent a little less on luxury living and thus have taxed the poor less.
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It mandated that something about the government gets done becaus nothing seemed to be working.
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