Causes of the French revolution
The long term and short term political, ideological, economic and social (PIES) causes of the French Revolution
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- Causes of the French Revolution
- Short Term
- Economic
- Reguilding of the palace of Versailles
- Treasury couldn't afford to subsidise rising foor costs
- Large defecit and debt repayments
- Social
- Growing disparity with the class system
- Poor harvests of 1788 due to hail
- Rising food prices leads to break down in law and order
- Treasury couldn't afford to subsidise rising foor costs
- Food shortages
- Rising food prices leads to break down in law and order
- Political
- Sale of political postions (venality)
- Louis XVI appeared weak
- Influenced by Brother and Wife
- Frequent changes in financial minister
- Idealogical
- Abbe Sieyes-What is the third estate? Januarary 1789
- Economic
- Long Term
- Ideological
- The Enlightenment
- people lost faith in the king
- Distrust of the kings
- Sleaze of Loius XV
- Distrust of the kings
- Against religion and divine right of kings
- Philosophers and writters
- Voltaire
- Rosseau
- Montesquieu
- Diderot
- people lost faith in the king
- The Enlightenment
- Political
- Distrust of the kings
- Sleaze of Loius XV
- Distrust of the kings
- Social
- Deep class divides
- Privilages for first and second estates
- Economic
- France's debt from wars
- American war of independence
- 7 years war
- France's debt from wars
- Ideological
- Short Term
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