What were some of the causes of the French Revolution?

Answer 1

Abject poverty for the poor. The royalty of the era was busy buying expensive trinkets for themselves and having a ball while the poor had nothing to eat. When the poor complained they were given food that was rancid and unfit to eat, they were literally starving to death. The rich also abused their power. Anyone who complained was tortured and killed or put in the Bastille. The Bastille to this day is a horror of filth. The prisoners were kept in cells which were not even high enough to stand in. They were given no clean clothes or good food. The prison had no heating or cooling. It was just cold and wet all the time. There were no toilets in the cells and people had to evacuate their bowels where they lived. The guards would hose them down once a week or whenever the smell got too bad. There were only royalty and peasants. Royalty would often rape the daughters and wives of peasants who were really like farmers or slaves working the land of the royals and got little or nothing for their efforts except a place to sleep. There was no justice and no food for the populace so they had to take things into their own hands.

Answer 2

The French royal family under the rule of King Louis XVI spent lavishly and put the nation into debt when the common people were starving to death across the French countryside. It was also influenced by the American Revolution, which France helped fund.

Answer 3

the indecisiveness of Louis XVI, his line of heritage had spent the treasury of France in wars and in gifts to the nobles to keep them loyal. the aristocrats and the church were immune from taxation from the state while the poor peasantry had to pay taxes to the state, a state enforced tithe to the church, and dues to the aristcrats in exchange for the use of their lands. there were philosphical ideas behind it supplied by men like Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquie, but the financial troubles were by far the most important. the economy was down the toilet because France practised Merchantilism, which meant exports had to equal imports (no trade deficit) it kept France from profiting from foreign nations and failed to utilize colonies efficiently as the British did. When Louis XVI was pressured to call the assembly, things just slowly spiraled down. He wasn't really that bad of a guy, he seemed to be genuinly concerned for his people it just boiled down to imcompetence and bad advisory. He tried to get control of the situation by hiring various financial ministers to fix the budget, but pressure from the clegy, nobles, and his wife (Marie Antoinnette) forced him to dismiss these ministers (Turgot, Necker, and Calonne) before they were able to do any good.

Answer 4

The ignorance of the King and Queen, they were barely more than children in charge of running a country with only their dishonest advisors to tell them what to do.

Answer 5

the king Louis XVI wasted a lot of money for US which left no money for him and there was lack of bread.

Answer 6

a few rich people that had it all and really rubbed it the face of the many that had almost nothing.

Answer 7

No bread or cake!