How Did The French Revolution Cause France In 1789

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In 1789, some issues happened in France caused France was on the brink of revolution. Nevertheless, all of those problems were based on the French population was divided into three estates. The first and second estate were nobles and clergy, they made up 10% of the the population. The rest of the people were peasants. The tax system was corrupt. The part of reason was some tax-collectors didn't hand all the taxes they collected to the government, but the main reason was the poor peasants because they were the people who had to pay amount of taxes to the government. Peasants has tp pay around 80kg of food, 4 chickens and 5 pence along with amount taxes. Meanwhile, durig the years 1787 to 1789, were the three hardest years because the extremely

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