Sunday, April 12, 2009

What were the financial problems of the royal government that were a major cause of the French Revolution?

It has been argued that the financial problems of the royal government were a major cause of the French Revolution. What were these problems? How did Louis XVI's government attempt to deal with the financial crisis? How did these problems precipitate the Revolution?


The government had spent all kinds of money on foreign adventures, including the financing of the American independence movement. The clergy and the nobles refused to pay, and the poor couldn't pay.

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