How Did Louis Respond To The French Revolution
“It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens: Louis must die that the country may live.” (Robespierre) With Louis XI in power the people of France will perish and Robespierre’s solution to this is to put an end to his life. Louis was a weak king and was easily persuaded by the last person he talked to. His rule caused great suffering in France and was completely oblivious to it. The commoners had no power what so ever and where controlled basically by the first two estates. They were taxed the heaviest, they had a little more than half of the land and they made up almost the whole population. All of this angered the commoners thus sparking the Revolution.
The life of a peasant in France could be summed up to a disparity of wealth. The nobility was taxed very little while the commoners where taxed heavily. Even though the commoners had almost no money they were still taxed so heavily that they could barely even buy bread. The only food affordable was bread until it was raised so high that that it no longer could be afforded. Bakeries …show more content…
They wanted an end to the abuse and tyranny and to have equal taxes. This was a huge problem within the estates because the first two estates refused to pay direct taxes and they would assume control over the third estate. Also whenever the estates met each estate had only one vote on a matter. This was a problem because the first and second estate could always beat the third out. This was proposed to be changed to a head count by the commoners, which would give the commoners the ability to out vote the first two estates, but it was not successful. The commoners wanted political power and a voice but neither of the other two estates would allow that. This was a huge cause of the French Revolution and to give the commoners the courage to act America’s breaking away from Britain gave them
The life of a peasant in France could be summed up to a disparity of wealth. The nobility was taxed very little while the commoners where taxed heavily. Even though the commoners had almost no money they were still taxed so heavily that they could barely even buy bread. The only food affordable was bread until it was raised so high that that it no longer could be afforded. Bakeries …show more content…
They wanted an end to the abuse and tyranny and to have equal taxes. This was a huge problem within the estates because the first two estates refused to pay direct taxes and they would assume control over the third estate. Also whenever the estates met each estate had only one vote on a matter. This was a problem because the first and second estate could always beat the third out. This was proposed to be changed to a head count by the commoners, which would give the commoners the ability to out vote the first two estates, but it was not successful. The commoners wanted political power and a voice but neither of the other two estates would allow that. This was a huge cause of the French Revolution and to give the commoners the courage to act America’s breaking away from Britain gave them