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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