French Revolution, Emerging Middle Class, And Napoleon Bonaparte

Vincent Li Global 10 French Revolution Crisis Throughout history, the emerging revolution was greatly influenced by the Enlightenment idea occurring within France. The Revolution was the forcible overthrow over the government in favor of a new system. The French Revolution began with the Third Estate revolting against King Louis the sixteenth, rule of absolute monarchy. The three factors that contributed to the rise of French Revolution are social inequality, financial crisis, and famine. The effects of such crisis were the Reign of Terror, emerging middle class, and the Napoleon Bonaparte.Nonetheless, the revolution proceeded ahead and the power of the monarch’s declined through an burden of conflict and bloodshed. The first factor that played a role in the French Revolution would be social inequality. An example would be how the First and Second Estate achieved substantial power and freedom even though, they were composed of less than three percent of the population. While, the Third Estate which is composed of ninety-seven percent of the population achieved barely any rights and power during the ruling of …show more content…
High taxation was put among the commoners, which is about fifty percent of their income. Such amount of taxes were put as stake to fulfill King Louis the 16th, luxurious desires. An example would be the enrichment of the palace of Versailles, which were made of gold plates, mainly funded by the citizen's taxes. Another example, would be Maria Antoinette, King Louis the 16th wife who often gambles and ruled as an poor leader. As an monarch, she didn't care about the famine and imposed taxes on the Third Estate. At the rise of the French revolution France was put into a state of high debts and