Essay Archive - The French Revolution
The French Revolution
The statement citing the essential cause of the French Revolution as
the "collision between a powerful, rising bourgeoisie and an entrenched
aristocracy defending it's privileges" has great pertinence in summarizing
the conflict of 1789. The causes of the French Revolution, being provoked
by this collision of powers, was the Financial debt of the government and
the long-standing political differences in the government.
Over the course of twenty-five years after the Seven Years' War, the
government of France--the B....
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