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Downfall of Absolute Monarchy: Financial Weakness (led to calling of Estates - General)
- France in debt due to foreign policy
- Eden Treaty led to less demand for luxury goods
- Tax farming (Farmers-General)
- Deficit (112m livres)
- Necker's Compte Rendu
- Corvee Royale
- Firmly believed in Divine Right
- Lacked self belief
- Failure of will & preparedness when calling the Estates-Geneal
- Marie Antoinette= Madame Deficit, L'Autrichienne, diamond necklass affair
Joseph II of Austria on Louis XVI
- Rejected tradition and revelation
- Philosophes = Rosseau, Diderot, Voltaire
- Attacked church and perceived despotism of monarchy
- Foundation of revolution
- Cahiers from first estate (clergy show dislike for pluralism and nobles against despotism & injustice)
- Were amiable to change
- 89% willing to give up their financial privileges
- Leaders: Duc d'Orleans, Lafayette
- Mutiny with Gardes-Francaise at Bastille
- Harvest of 1788 disasterous
- Population pressure
- 88% of wages being spent on bread
- Unemployment
- Textiles production fell 50% 1789
- Reveillion Riots
- 10th July 1789 citizens militia to protect property owners
- Storming of the Bastille (14th July)
* 'inspired a much wider revolutionary movement in France' - J. Godechot
- Great Fear
- October Days
- March of the Women
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