FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Failure of the U.S President
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Economic success of mercantilism
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The unequal tax structure
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The rise of priests’ authority in the government
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Detailed explanation-1: -The spark that ignited the French Revolution (1789-1799), one of the most important events in modern global history, was actually government debt, accumulated during the course of two wars, and the desire of King Louis XVI to increase taxes to pay off that debt.
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. The Estate System placed people into groups based on birth and was known as the Ancien Regime.
Detailed explanation-3: -Taxation is considered an important cause of the French Revolution. The accepted view is during the 1700s, France’s taxation regime became excessive, inefficient and unfair.
Detailed explanation-4: -taille, the most important direct tax of the pre-Revolutionary monarchy in France. Its unequal distribution, with clergy and nobles exempt, made it one of the hated institutions of the ancien régime. The taille originated in the early Middle Ages as an arbitrary exaction from peasants.
Detailed explanation-5: -A large cause of the French Revolution was the inequality caused by the feeling of superiority the higher classes held. They spent lavishly and treated the third estate horribly, forcing taxes onto them when they had little income. They abused their control, along with their expenses.