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ORIGINS OF FRENCH REVOLUTION 1774-89🇫🇷 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Clergy⛪️
        
        paid no taxes
        -church made a voluntary annual grant of 16 million livres, just 5% of total church income (how unfair)
      - Nobility🎓
        -exempt from heaviest tax the taille (land tax) and the corvées royales (labour service on the roads)
        -payed some new taxes linked to income but were often able to avoid paying full amount .
        
        were exempt from military conscription although many volunteered to fight by buying commissions.
      - The Peasantry🤕
        -poorest of society carried hardest burden
        -to lord of the manor Seigneur they payed rents and taxes on their grain harvest and some had to do labour service.
        -To the state they performed labour service on the road and paid and paid taille and gabelle (salt tax). they could be conscripted or have soldiers billeted upon them.
        -payed tithe to the church
        
        their main concern was to stay alive and this was dependent on the price of bread.
      - Strengths and Weaknesses💪🤒
        -in 1783 France was arguably the most powerfull European country and had just defeated B.
        -Although structure of Ancien Régime was inefficent and unfair it worked .
        -however the king could not make radical changes so its key weaknesses, the problem of government and taxation, could not be reformed and tensions in society grew.