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France And The French Revolution

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This is 1789, France. As a country, France is in great debt, the main reasons for debt are multiple factors, such as extensive borrowing to meet the high costs of multiple wars and lavish spending by Louis XVI. On top of this, there is scarcity of food due to a series of crop failures. Being the sole tax payers, the poor and lower classes are bearing a brunt of all this. They are still trying to attain social recognition. This has led to tensions between all the social classes. The abolishment of the parlements system and the introduction of a single high court for the nation has aroused even more hostility not only among the ruling classes but also among all the other beneficiaries of the old financial system. France is growing into a politically, …show more content…

I grew up in France, controlled solely by the Monarch and the upper class. France was divided into three, the Clergy, The Nobility and The Working Class, yet when the French Revolution took shape, three views emerged in the country, namely the Royalty, the Monarchiens and the Revolutionaries. The Royalty wanted to stay in power and hence wanted no change in the system but the Revolutionaries sought to bring about a change in the working of France. They wanted to change everything from total abolition of monarchial rule to equal participation of all classes on important …show more content…

They wanted a free government without accommodating the existing system, they wanted to redefine everything by overthrowing the current monarchial system. The revolutionaries are hell bent in uprooting the current system, they call it class divide. They are demanding complete abolition of monarchy. They don’t want even the king. It seems unimaginable to think about France without kings and nobilities. Without Monarchy, there will be no one to administer the kingdom, no one to negotiate with foreign delegates. Who will negotiate with the king of Britain? How can common man, without experience will be able to administer the state. Can they control the army, can they negotiate the right of France with other countries? The monarchs of Britain or Spain would never talk to commoners. The ideas of revolutionaries are very radical to me. Although, sometimes I, too, find some of their demands justified. I believe in the middle path of the Monarchiens. I support the Monarchiens and their ideologies. Unlike the revolutionaries we did not want total change in the system nor did we want the old system to continue as it is. I thought this was the best solution as it was impossible to run a country like France without a Monarch but going on with the Absolutist Monarchy system was also not a solution. We aimed at benefitting all the classes alike. We aimed to find a common path for both the rights of the common people and the

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