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Financial And Societal Collapse Of The French Revolution

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The French government faced a financial and societal crisis by 1789 after at least fifty years of economic prosperity. Reluctant to the idea of reforms for this government proved detrimental, resulting in the French Revolution. If not for the influences from the Enlightenment philosophes and the French Revolution, this country could have collapsed. Spending was out of control. As French leaders began recognizing the accruing debt was only taking them further backwards, they finally were opening up to change. Reluctantly, the government called the Estates-Generals to convene; a meeting that had not taken place in over sixty years. Coupled with the more liberal ideas of the philosophes, the Estates-General offered a new outlook on the

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