General economic problems + Ancien Regime
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- General economy in France
- Poor Harvests
- led to food shortages
- worsened by growing population
- Spring 1789 - 88% of Parisian workers' wages go towards buying bread.
- Grain shortages led to inflation.
- led to food shortages
- Unemployment
- manufacturing industry slows down as people can't afford to buy excess goods
- leads to riots
- Révellion riots (April 1789)
- When Révellion(wallpaper manufacture) made derogatory comments about the high cost of wages
- Riots hoped that the King would be able to fix their problems when the Estates-General met
- Economic crisis led to the politicisation of the Estates-General
- 'Long live the King' 'Long live M. Necker'
- Révellion riots (April 1789)
- leads to riots
- manufacturing industry slows down as people can't afford to buy excess goods
- Poor Harvests
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