The French Revolution: Social Causes

One cause for the French revolution was because France was bankrupt and no one really was paying taxes and they was making the peaseants contribute more knowing they didn't have nothing.Years of feudal oppression and fiscal mismanagement contributed to a French society that was ripe for revolt. It was the first estate, the second estate, known as the the clergy and the nobility and the third estate. The third estate felt used because they were fed up with their mistreatment, activists and pamphleteers of the Third Estate took to the streets in protest. What really trigged the revolution was the national assembly which consist of making a new constitution.

July 14 1789 mob of Parisian citizens storms Bastille prison and confiscates weapons. The enlightenment thinkers influenced the revolution because there ideas that the had were making the French people question there government.