Topic > The Economic Origins of the French Revolution - 2737

The French monarchy's exaggerated opinion of themselves and other nobles lent itself to how they contributed to and managed the economic crisis in France for centuries before the French Revolution. Forming the basis of many of France's financial matters, the monarchical system granted the royals and nobles around them the ability to feel as if they were destined to be superior to the rest of France, a mentality that would last until the start of the Revolution French. Under this monarchical system, each king of France from 1610 to 1789 would have contributed both positively and negatively, depending on the prime ministers he appointed. [ADD] Marking a significant initial phase of the economic crisis was the Seven Years' War, a battle that saw few positive results, but several losses both in terms of land and money, which had been acquired through loans that would establish the first significant progress for France. debt. The reign of Louis XVI would further accentuate this debt, while at the same time creating a greater divide between the French states, placing the heavy burden of repaying much of the new debt on France's poorest class, the Third Estate. Participation in another war, just ten years before the French Revolution, would create even more debt for France as it entered the American Revolutionary War, again with financing coming from loans that would have to be paid soon after. During this period of debt creation in France, society worsened in many ways due to the inability of the nation, from royalty to the Third Estate, to evolve economically, socially, and agriculturally. With this general sense of decline throughout France, an almost unanimous desire of the French Third Estate, the most populous, was to pa... in the center of the map ......Onomic origins of the French Revolution: poverty or prosperity ? Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company, 1958. Print.Hibbert, Christopher. The days of the French Revolution. New York: WilliamMorrow and Company, 1980. Print.Sée, Henri. Economic and social conditions in France in the 18th century. Trans. Edwin H. Zeydel. Kitchener: Batoche, 2004. Print.Smitha, Frank E. “The French Revolution.” World history and chronology. GaertnerHumanities, and Web.Stark, Nicholas. "Reforms under Napoleon Bonaparte". Napoleonic Society. NapoleonicSociety International, n.d. Web.Spielvogel, Jackson J. “Chapter 11: The French Revolution and Napoleon.” GlencoeWorld History: Modern Times. New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2008. 326-355. Print."Cause of the French Revolution: an economic crisis." Cause of the French Revolution: the economic crisis. Bastille-Day.com, July 1, 2012. Web.