MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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55%
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65%
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70%
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75%
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn’t. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing than governing, recognized that a crisis loomed.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the years 1787 – 1789, terrible weather, heavy rain, hard winters and too hot summers led to three very bad harvests in France. This led to peasants and farmers having smaller incomes, while food prices rose sharply.
Detailed explanation-3: -Bread, which formerly cost three sous a pound, now rose to six sous and even to eight sous in the small towns round Paris.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the spring and summer of 1788, there was unrest among the populace in Paris, Grenoble, Dijon, Toulouse, Pau, and Rennes. The king, Louis XVI, had to yield. He reappointed reform-minded Jacques Necker as the finance minister and promised to convene the Estates-General on May 5, 1789.