Causes of the downfall of the constituional monarchy 1792
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- Created on: 16-05-16 09:35
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- Factors for the downfall of constituional monarchy
- Economy and finance
- 1791 Poor harvest
- riots over food prices
- October days - bread demands from women - showed the weakness of the king
- Contant war was costing the country millions
- Emigres had removed the trade of luxury goods when they left
- Church charity had dried up
- Assignats fell in worth and inflation began
- General maximum on food prices - March 1972
- Flight to Varennes - Actions of Louis
- June 1791 - Louis and family attempt to flee France
- Belived to be going to Austria - saw this as working with the enemy
- Multiple mistakes and miscalculation meant that they were brought back to Paris as prisoners
- Seen as undermining the constituion
- To prove he was a traitor - a trunk of letters to Austrian leaders showed the royal family betraying France
- Politics - opposition to a royal family
- The king had become increasingly unpopular over the past 20 years
- Demands for a republic developed in Paris
- October days showed the king's unpopularity
- Famine and bad harvest were blamed on the king
- The enlightenment had shown a society without the need for a king
- War
- Costly for France
- Louis and his government were split on the want for war
- Louis wanted a defeat dso his Austrian cousins would reinstate his crown
- France was already war werey by this time
- France was being attacked from all sides
- Economy and finance
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