THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1
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- Prince Louis became King Louis XVI in May 1774
- Financial problems in the country
- Problems with the social structure of the country
- FIRST STATE(Clergy)
- THIRD STATE (Everyone Else)
- SECOND STATE (Nobles)
- One day of May of 1774, Louis became King. He had only 20 years old, and had no idea of how to govern correctly a country, and less with the huge amount of population that france had at the time.
- "Solving" the financial problems
- Today we are the 3 states reunited to take a very important decision for the economy of the country
- As soon as he started working, he started presenting some financial debts, some of which were hereditary debts of past governors. Nevertheless, the way he continued administrating the economic status of the country was causing a lot of damage to the citizens. He riched the point that none of the banks would lend him money anymore, so he needed to take drastic decisions.
- Inequality
- In addition, one of the principal problems that was facing the government of France, was the social structure organization. This influenced the way Louis took the decisions of the country, as we are going to see in the following vignette.
- Trying to make change
- The way Louis thought he could solve the problems he had caused due to his lack of knowledge at administrating the money of a country, was summoing a Estate General Meeting.
- The taxes were going to be elevated, but this decision was discussed in a court, where the final decision was that the first and second state did not pay taxes, but unfortunately, the third state was the one that received the greatest impact as it needed to pay double of taxes.
- Who votes in favor that we duplicate the amount of taxes in the third state, and that we don't add taxes for the first and second state?
- Even though the third state was proclaiming that it was extremely unfair as they were almost 98% of the population and the group that received the lowest income, Louis did not make any change in the way the votes were carried out. They wanted to make something about it.
- WE ARE ALMOST THE ENTIRE POPULATION!!
- THIS IS UNFAIR!
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