french revoloution
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- taxes
- starvation
- enlightenment philosophers
- France's taxation regime became excessive, inefficient and unfair.The nobility and clergy were also exempt from some direct taxes.
- estates general meeting
- Food shortages and high prices ignited an explosion of popular anger in the towns and villages of the Paris Basin. Riots and expeditions to pillage grain were recorded in the space of a little period of time.
- storming of the bastile
- ideas were liberty and equality based upon a government for the people, by the people. These ideals can be seen in the motto of the French Revolution Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
- women's march to versitiles
- 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI to propose solutions to France's financial problems.
- Set off a series of events that led to the overthrow of King Louis XVI and the French Revolution.
- Gave the revolutionaries confidence in the power of the people over the king
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