What if the french revolution failed2/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Each of the three estates - clergy, nobility, and the third estate, or commons - presents its particular grievances to the Crown. ![]() King Louis XVI calls an Estates-General to gain the country's consent to a general fiscal reform. They refuse in an effort to protect their economic privileges. The French Director-General of Finances, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, calls an Assembly of Notables, hoping to avert national bankruptcy by inducing the privileged classes to share in the financial burden. In 1798 the government's coffers are empty, and there is a bad harvest. French America and Canada suffered from under-funding. ![]() This leads to increased taxation, poverty and unrest in France, and therefore repression and harsh punishments. This is not helped by the effort involved in administering the large areas of Australia, Canada and Louisiana and the general excesses of the French crown and government. Although they have had good trade with China, France still has problems with its rising national debt and with unrest in the country caused by the high level of taxation on the productive classes, and the unwillingness of the privileged classes to sacrifice any of their perks to help the county. ![]()
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