Topic: what caused the french revolution
Paper details:
- International: struggle for hegemony and Empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state
- Political conflict: conflict between the Monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.
- The Enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in Montequieu’s Spirit of the Laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in Rousseau’s Social Contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the Literary Underground of “Grub Street;” the broadening influence of public opinion.
- Social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie
- Ineffective ruler: Louis XVI
- Economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.
I believe that the most significant cause of the French Revolution was due to political conflicts between the two monarchy’s and the nobility over the reformation of the tax system and bankruptcy. This economical hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 caused popular discontent and disorders caused by lack for food resources. Due to such causes caused the French Revolution to take place.
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