During The French Revolution Many Events Occurred Leading Up To The Revolution

Jordan Charles
Mrs. Williams
10th grade
27 February 2015

During the French Revolution many events occurred leading up to the Revolution.
By this time there way three key problems Social, storming of bastille, economic crisis. In every Revolution, social economy is everything because people matter in the world. One problem was France’s unequal social hierarchy that was made up of three classes. (The First Estate owned 10% of land, but paid little in taxes to their government. Second Estate owned 20% of French land, but didn’t pay any taxes. Lastly, you have Third Estate, which made up 97%of the population and included the poor.) In addition, during the eighteenth century they saw the intrusion of capitalism into the everyday life. (Although home to the wealthy and middling, cities tended to be even more unsavory places to live then the countryside.) https://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap1a.html. Many people depended on socialism to save them. The storming of bastille is very important in the stirring up of the French Revolution. The storming of the bastille overturned the French system of monarchical government and introduced the ideas of liberty, equality, fraternity, and human and civil rights to modernize political practice. (The Bastille was a medieval fortress with 8 towers, which at the time of the French Revolution housed only a few common criminals. Taken from the French word ‘bastide’, meaning fortress, the Bastille was constructed to defend the eastern wall of Paris in 1382. But because it had previously been used to house political prisoners, it had long been a symbol of royal tyranny.) http://www.historywiz.com/bastillefall.htm. In the 1791 King Louie XVI agreed to a new constitution that limited power and also limited their monarchy. (Fearing the spread of France’s revolutionary ideas, Austria and Prussia assembled armies to restore France’s absolute monarchy.). But, then came economic crisis. Lastly, Louie XVI doesn’t know how to control his money better and not spend it freely. When Louie XVI was king he abused his power, and did unfair taxation on his people. But, also France builds up enormous debt by participating in the Seven Year’ War and American Revolution. (They bound the French peasantry into compromising feudal obligations and refused to contribute any tax revenue to the French government.) m.sparknotes.com. By being apart of the Seven Year’ War it drained the treasury, and causes all these problems. In the end, the French Revolution lasted 10 years. They had social problems, The Storming of Bastille, and economic crisis to take them to the end. But every fall always rebuilds it’s self.