HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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meeting of the Estates General
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unfair policies of taxation
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execution of the king
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storming of the Bastille
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Detailed explanation-1: -The nobles and the clergy were largely excluded from taxation while the commoners paid disproportionately high direct taxes. The desire for more efficient tax collection was one of the major causes for French administrative and royal centralization.
Detailed explanation-2: -The causes of the French Revolution can be narrowed to five main factors: the Estate System, absolutism, Enlightenment ideas, food shortages, and the American Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -These included a direct tax known as taille, as well as a host of indirect taxes imposed on daily items including salt and tobacco. The cost of funding state activities by taxation was solely borne by the third estate. So these are the taxation policies responsible for the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -The kingdom of France engaged in too much expenditure relative to the tax revenue. The lavish lifestyle of the monarchy and aristocracy had to be supported with the small tax revenue. France had also spent a lot of revenue in wars with Britian, particularly during the American war of Independence.