MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Question
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Which other factor further contributed to France’s financial crisis?
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Extravagant spending by the French Monarchy, particularly by Marie-Antoinette.
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Devastating Harvests from 1788-1789 caused mass starvation and widespread unemployment throughout France.
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Feudal Dues and payment of the Tithe contributed to widespread poverty among the peasants who were already overburdened by taxation.
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The Monarchy’s inability to save France from economic ruin because the First and Second Estates of France, the wealthiest people in the kingdom, were exempt from paying taxation.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -French involvement in the Seven Years’ War and the American War of Independence added substantially to the state’s debts. Jacques Necker, finance minister from 1777 and 1781, had largely funded France’s war effort through loans. As a result the state debt ballooned to between 8 and 12 billion livres by 1789.
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.
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