Was the French Revolution inevitable?

Answer 1

SOMETHING is pretty inevitable now in a lot of places

Answer 2

I think that some form of revolution was pretty inevitable... whether it was inevitable that it took the form it did is another matter....

there are enough discussions about the various causes of the French Revolution to suggest that there were many things wrong with the ancien régime

the French were not alone when it came to revolution in that period... so much so that historians speak of the mid-18th to mid-19th centuries as 'the age of revolution'

Answer 3

I think it was an accident waiting to happen, King Loius xvi, was narcissistic by privilege not by collegiate expertise.

The starving, poverty had stricken the area in a big way. Then the rye blight was the straw that broke the camels back.

It is said, the blight released a chemical known as Ergot and was cooked into the breads, shared in the rashoned system, had an after effect.

Hallucinations, similar to those if you were to ingest LSD-25, with the given exception of the times and era of superstition, it was easy to incite riot.

A cause in case would have contributed to the witch hangings in Massachussetts, the Salem witch trials. That same year they had a rust blight on the rye crops and as a result about a dozen or more people were hung by the neck until dead.

It didn't get rid of the hallucinations, until all that crop had been consumed, so far to date nothing like this has happened again.

1947 Albert Hoffman was able to synthesize the chemical to produce the drug known as D-LSD-25, later used by the Russians, the English, Australians and the American CIA as a truth serum.

Hoffman thought it had more medical benefits, one was to cure alcoholism.

It was a good question, the dialog went further than I anticipated, I hope this was some help in answering your question.

Answer 4

Yes. Only the trigger was wanting. It turned out to be the calling of the Estates General and the oath on the tennis court. If it had not been that, it would have been something else. You only have to go to France today, look around, see the abbey church of St. Denis, and you will realize the ferocity of the French revolution. There was an enormous amount of pent-up resentment that found outlet in the terror.

It didn't end there. In 1871, defeated in the Franco-Prussian war, France rose again in unbelievable violence in the Paris commune.