Is the absolute monarchy of france one of te causes for the french revolution?

Answer 1

Historians disagree about the political and socioeconomic nature of the Revolution. Under one interpretation, the old aristocratic order of the Ancien Régime succumbed to an alliance of the rising bourgeoisie, aggrieved peasants, and urban wage-earners. Another interpretation asserts that the Revolution resulted when various aristocratic and bourgeois reform movements spun out of control. According to this model, these movements coincided with popular movements of the new wage-earning classes and the provincial peasantry, but any alliance between classes was contingent and incidental.

However, adherents of both models identify many of the same features of the ancien régime as being among the causes of the Revolution. Among the economic factors were:

* The social and psychological burdens of the many wars of the 18th century, which in the era before the dawn of nationalism were exclusively the province of the monarchy. The social burdens caused by war included the huge war debt, made worse by the monarchy's military failures and ineptitude, and the lack of social services for war veterans.
* A poor economic situation and an unmanageable national debt, both caused and exacerbated by the burden of a grossly inequitable system of taxation.
* The Roman Catholic Church, the largest landowner in the country, which levied a harsh tax on crops known as the dîme. While the dîme lessened the severity of the monarchy's tax increases, it nonetheless served to worsen the plight of the poorest who faced a daily struggle with malnutrition.
* The continued conspicuous consumption of the noble class, especially the court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette at Versailles, despite the financial burden on the populace.
* High unemployment and high bread prices, causing more money to be spent on food and less in other areas of the economy;
* Widespread famine and malnutrition, which increased the likelihood of disease and death, and intentional starvation in the most destitute segments of the population during the months immediately before the Revolution. The famine extended even to other parts of Europe, and was not helped by a poor transportation infrastructure for bulk foods. (Some researchers have also attributed the widespread famine to an El Niño effect.).[1]
The Ideals: Declaration of Human Rights.
The Ideals: Declaration of Human Rights.

In addition to economic factors, there were social and political factors, many of them involving resentments and aspirations given focus by the rise of Enlightenment ideals:

* Resentment of royal absolutism;
* Resentment by the ambitious professional and merchantile classes towards noble privileges and dominance in public life (with a clear picture of the lives of their peers in The Netherlands, The Germanies, and Great Britain etc.);
* Resentment of manorialism (seigneurialism) by peasants, wage-earners, and, to a lesser extent, the bourgeoisie;
* Resentment of clerical privilege (anti-clericalism) and aspirations for freedom of religion;
* Continued hatred for (perceived) "Papist" controlled and influenced institutions of all kinds, by the large Protestant minorities;
* Aspirations for liberty and (especially as the Revolution progressed) republicanism;
* Hatred toward the King for firing Jacques Necker and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune (among other financial advisors) who represented and fought for the people.

Finally, perhaps above all, was the almost total failure of Louis XVI and his advisors to deal effectively with any of these problems.

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Answer 2

Yes more precisely it is the failure of the absolute monarchy to lead the country and the discontent of the people with the privilege of the nobility and clergy while having little to nothing to live.

The french revolution is by the people and for the people.

I'm french so bear with me with my english language errors.

At the dawn of the french revolution the King is running out of money with a royal budget in deficit and France is going through a difficult time due to high price of bread that is following a bad harvesting year. The greatest portion of taxes is payed by the poorest while the nobles are against paying new taxes to the King (and they get away with it). The money is for sustaining the lavish lifestyle of the royalty under the king Louis the 14th. The absolute monarchy is all powerfull and commands over a legislatif body called the three orders made of the nobility, the clergy and the people. All the privileges are held by the nobility and the clergy (except for the lower part of the clergy: the priests). The third order = the people grows discontent and organizes itself. The King treats them by ignoring their demands and hopes to rule them like sheeps. But this is the beginning of a long process in which the people lead by the bourgeoisie (sort of the middle class but the term has nothing to do and does not exist yet at that period in time) and will organize themselves to free themselves from having to spend their life working for someone else (history is nothing new !). The farmers do not own any land property. Little by little the King loses grounds.
The greatest philosophical influence to the french revolution was the ideas brought forth one century before by well known philosophers called "Les lumieres" or The Lights (in constrast to the middle-age time that preceded that is considered a dark time in history). The lumieres were : Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, D'alembert, Benj. Franklin, Kant.
The idea of the Lumiere is that supreme power is in the nation (the people).
By 1760 these ideas have spread accross the bourgeois class of the people and some liberal nobility. The first symbolic act by the people was that the royal jails, a forteress known as 'La bastille' is taken by force on July the 14th 1789 (France national day). After that the whole nation is starting to boil. The three orders soons becomes the national assembly. The processus is not purely militaristic it is lead by a political ideas. But in fact the whole country was really ready to go into a revolution there was no other way. One thing let to the next. The King little by little was put to the side. Much of the higher nobility felt in danger (they were) and emigrated to other countries. At some point The Prussian army marches to Paris to counter the revolution which will be the last conspiracy of the King against the revolutionary power. France is now a constitutional monarchy. That means the King still holds executive power (veto) but the national assembly had legislatif power . But that is not the end of the revolution. Ultimately the King will be entirely destituted. In 1791 he is judged and found guitly 693 against 28 votes and condemned to death 366 against 334 votes and executed. The Republic is born.

Still not the end of the revolution. Next comes Napoleon Bonaparte who will become an Emperor and conquer Europe. But I'll stop here.
Read Wikipedia for a much better accoun of the french revolution

Answer 3

Louis XVI of France (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) governed as King of France and Navarre from 1774 till 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792. Suspended and arrested throughout the riot of 10 August 1792, he replaced into tried by ability of the national convention, chanced directly to blame of treason, and performed by ability of guillotine on 21 January 1793. He replaced into the only king of France to be performed. ditays

Answer 4

yes