French_Revolution

French Revolution The statement “The essential cause of the French Revolution was the collision between a powerful, rising bourgeoisie, and an entrenched aristocracy defending is privileges,” is correct. The French Revolution occurred because the French middle class wanted change, and the nobles and king did not want the government to change. Before the revolution, the ruling powers in France were the king and nobles. The immediate cause of the revolution was a government in extreme debt. The amount of taxes collected was insufficient because certain groups were exempt from taxes, and the government was corrupt. A proposed solution was to increase tax revenue. This increase in taxes was targeted for the nobles. They rejected this tax increase and demanded that the king summon Parliament. He did. Each group represented had different expectations of the government. While the nobles wanted more power for their group, the bourgeoisie wanted to change the entire system. Because the bourgeoisie were in the minority in Parliament they met separately and called themselves the National Assembly. They agreed french, revolution, new, king, wanted, nobles, national, government, france, constitution, change, assembly, taxes, system, power, nobility, increase, groups, group, bourgeoisie, because, tax, passed, parliament, made, end, cause, written, write, while, vote, violence, until, throughout, therefore