The French Revolution has been viewed as the major turning point in European political and social history. The causes that led to this bloody revolution can be looked at from an economic, political, social, and intellectual standpoint. Failed reforms, famine, the Enlightenment, a corrupt bureaucracy, and a divided population are only some of the many aspects that helped influence a revolution to take place in late eighteenth century France. Economically, France’s government was virtually bankrupt and in debt. The immediate cause of the French Revolution was the near collapse of government finances. So the government raised the taxes on the “Third Estate”, to make the money up from all of the spending. After the taxes were raised they hired
