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Causes of the French Revolution - Coggle Diagram
Causes of the French Revolution
Social Problems
Agricultural Problems
disease
Starvation
particularly during harvesting crisis before revolution
Inflation of all market and other food prices
Unemployment, unable to pay people
Money Problems
Ancien Regime was anachronistic
Royal Wastefulness
Food inflation
90% of income went to bread
financial crisis' in industries
unemployment
loss of industry
Weak Economic Policies
open France to British imports
drove France business out of production
Poor Leadership
Wastefulful royal expenditure causing bankruptcy
Louis inherited a terrible financial situation
Despotism
Social Conditions
King Louis XVI
Absolute monarch
First Estate
Access to political power and position in the church
Second Estate
Landowners, wealthy, military positions and political power
Third Estate
limited to no political power, poor with the exception of the wealthy bourgeoisie
Social Structure
King Louis XVI
First Estate
the clergy
Second Estate
the nobility military generals and officers
Third Estate
Bourgeoisie, farmers, merchants, businessmen poor
Political Crisis
Assembly of Notables
Parlements
Estates-General
House of Representatives
The Enlightenment
Philosophes
Diderot, Voltaire, Montesquieu & Rousseau
analysis on society based on reason and rational thought rather than superstition and tradition
aim was to apply rational analysis to all activities
movement questioned and challenged who range of views and ideas that were widely accepted at the time
Much in favour of liberty - press, speech, trade, freedom from arbitrary arrest - than equally, although did not want equality before law
Voltaire's views condemned Catholic Church because of their wealth, corruption and intolerance - "crush the infamous" (‘Ecrasez l’infâme’)
ideas and approaches influenced many who would become revolutionaries
Third Estate