The French economy was shattered, besieged by debtors and on the verge of bankruptcy.As a result, the citizens had lost faith in the responsiveness of the inept monarchy and were worried about such...
Like Charles Dickens wrote about the French Revolution in his A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.." After the rule of King Louis XV, France was left in bad...
The cause was a country in serious debt, a couple of years of low yield crops that forced the price of grain up and forced the poor to do without. A starving citizen is unhappy and has a tendency to...