1. What were the long-range and immediate causes of the French Revolution? One long range cause was that the peasants were sick of doing all the work and paying all the taxes while they were the poorest. The Nobles refused, or were exempted from, paying their taxes due to owning the majority of the land in France at this time. The King, Louis XVI, was quite arrogant. He is known as the worst king and the last king, in France’s history, he was executed following his overrule. Louis XVI was taxing the peasants so harshly to pay for his own debt that he accumulated and could not pay back. He was a slimy king, a corrupted ruler and a fraud in my mind. He did not show the characteristics of a Great Ruler. One immediate cause was that there was a food shortage and all the peasants were starving. There were bread riots, famine and drought. The peasants resided in the countryside, where they were forced to work on land they did not own, for a Noble man or the King for little to no reward. The countryside was impacted tremendously prior to the French Revolutions beginning. A horrible winter killed every source of food available almost, …show more content…
The Lawyers in the French Revolution, a very important part, formulated a Constitution for the country and set certain laws for the citizens to abide by in the new government. Second, the peasants had to pay heavy taxes. Generally the peasants were denied equal representation and denied equal rights. This caused the rebellion of the peasants in the interior regions of France, the peasants lived in the countryside of France with horrid conditions. The women during the French Revolution, who were supposed to be a “housewife” (HomeBound) started to demand equality between the sexes and a end to patriarchy by carrying out agitations and forming women's clubs like Society for Revolutionary Republican