In the year of 1774, a nineteen year old boy, Louis XVI also known as Louis Capet, became the ruler of France. During that time the country had many problems.The political structure during the time in France was composed with three separate estates. First the clergy, second the nobility and third every one else. 97 percent of the population that belonged to the third estate, had endured social inequality and exploitation under the hierarchy for generations.(The French Revolution) The biggest problem that France had was that the country didn’t have any money. The French government was not able to collect enough tax money to pay the the national debt that they had, due to decades of paying for foreign wars and defending French territory in North
