An Introduction to Causes and Effects of the French Revolution

This paper focuses on the French Revolution, why it occurred, and how things changed after it. The author mentioned that the revolution came about because King Louis XIV's wars decreased the royal finances dramatically. As a result, people such as Voltaire and Diderot became critical of the government. King Louis and the bureaucracy worked to maintain the Old Regime. Social classes and structure were broken into three groups (the First Estate (the Church, parish priests), Second Estate (the nobility), and Third Estate (commoners, bourgeoisie, peasants, city workers)) and played an essential role in people's lives. The primary cause of the revolution was the differences these three groups had. The author goes on to mention Robert Turgot, the Parliament, the Estates General, the National Assembly, a constitutional monarchy, Versailles, the Bastille, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the Catholic Church, France, Austria, Prussia, the Legislative Assembly, Europe, monarchs, the National Convention, Austrian Netherlands, Great Britain, Dutch Netherlands, Spain, Committee of Public Safety, Maximilien Robespierre, Republic of Virtue, the Reign of Terror, the Directory, Napoleon, Italy, Egypt, the Nile River, the Navy, Horatio Nelson, socialism, liberalism, and nationalism and how they are all related to the French Revolution.
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