MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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15%
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22%
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25%
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32%
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Detailed explanation-1: -The population of France rose from about 23 million in 1715 to 28 million in 1789. This led to a rapid increase in the demand for food grains. Production of grains could not keep pace with the demand.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -An overbearing population rise in France was one of the major causes of the French Revolution. The population grew from 23 million to 28 million in 1789.
Detailed explanation-4: -– The peasants, who alone constituted 75 to 80% of the total population, were by far the largest segment of the Third Estate. They owned about 35 to 40% of the land, although their landholdings varied from area to area and over half had little or no land on which to survive.