The French Revolution: Assess the view that the main cause of the French revolution was popular discontent.
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"Assess the view that the main cause of the French revolution was popular discontent" The main cause of the French Revolution was not popular discontent but rather the financial decline of France's economy together with other minor yet significant events.
Popular discontent was an effect brought upon by the financial situation within France, which, for example, can clearly be demonstrated in the March Of The Women of 1789 in Versailles. The decline of the power of …
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…which France under took only succeeded in bankrupting the country and moving its populace towards accepting the revolutionary ideas of the enlightenment. The church and nobility with their taxes and selfish attitudes did not help the financial situation and the Queen, Marie Antoinette only added to this with her extravagant tastes. All in all the French Revolution was mainly influenced by economical attributes and, arguably, can be seen as a The Economical Revolution of France.
…which France under took only succeeded in bankrupting the country and moving its populace towards accepting the revolutionary ideas of the enlightenment. The church and nobility with their taxes and selfish attitudes did not help the financial situation and the Queen, Marie Antoinette only added to this with her extravagant tastes. All in all the French Revolution was mainly influenced by economical attributes and, arguably, can be seen as a The Economical Revolution of France.
