FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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political inequality.
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religious persecution.
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foreign intervention
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treatment of women.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In their rebellions of 1789, the French peasants were reacting to the high cost of bread, high taxes, and: 29.
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: -The peasants, many of whom owned land, had attained an improved standard of living and education and wanted to get rid of the last vestiges of feudalism so as to acquire the full rights of landowners and to be free to increase their holdings.
Detailed explanation-4: -The political causes of the French Revolution are faulty administration, the autocracy of the king, the power of the court, the excessive spending of the royals, bankruptcy, the burden of taxes, etc.