THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
LOIUS 16
LOUIS 16 WAS AN AUTOCRATIC RULER WHO COULDNOT COMPROMISE WITH HIS LUXIROUS LIFE AND HE ALSO LACK FAR
SIGHTEDNESS.DUE TO LACK OF TREASURE HE INCREASED THE RATE OF TAXES WHICH LED OUTBREAK,AS TAXES
WERE ONLY PAID BY 3 STATE.
STATES
THE SOCIAL ORDER OF FRANCE WAS MARKED BY GROSS IN EQALITIES ,THE CLERGY AND NOBILITY WHICH FORMED
THE FIRST TWO STATE WERE PRIVILEGED .THEY WERE EXEMPT FROM
PAYMENT OF STATE TAXES .THIRD ESTATE FORMED THE MAJORITY OF THE
POPULATION WAS UN PRIVILEGED CLASS BURDEN OF TAXES WITH NO POLITICAL AND SOCIAL STATUS . HENCE THEY WERE A PRO FOUNDLY
DISCONTED A LOT .THE PROBLEM WAS FINANCIAL TOO ,
THE TREAUSRY OF THE KING WAS EMPTY ON ACCOUNT OF LONG WARS INVOLVEMENT IN AMERICAN WAR OF
THE KING AND FAULTY SYSTEM OF TAXATION.
MADE BY :JATIN VASWANI
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