What were people complaining about in early 1780s
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- What were people complaining about in early 1780s?
- Corruption
- Church complained they didn't receive tithes and bishops didn't visit diocese
- Venality: buying 80,000 offices- hereditary property of purchaser
- Brought in 4 million livres each year
- New Ideas
- Writers used rational thoughts to analyse society which wasn't support by absolute monarchs
- Tax system
- Unfair system where 1st and 2nd didn't pay taxes
- Church only paid 5% of income instead of tax which was better than paying tax
- Rural poverty
- Poor harvest
- 1770-1789 only 3 good harvests and reduced food quality
- Variable wine crop was financially damaging
- Small land holdings
- land split between hiers therefore by 1789 25% of french land was in small plots
- Only had enough had for their families and didn't have time for improvements to increase crop yield
- Poor harvest
- Life in Towns
- Majority poor
- 40,000 servants in Paris alone and life expectancy was only 28.5 with poor living standards
- Bread prices rose which triggered unrest and crime
- Growth
- Paris gew by 20%
- Ports such as Marseilles grew from foreign trade
- Majority poor
- Noble rights
- Feudal rights over peasants and not paying tax made it unfair
- Controlled heavy industry and reserted their wealth and privilleged position
- Corruption
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