The main cause of the French Revolution

Deals with the bourgeoise, Louis XVI, and the other classes in Revolutionary France Good work The years before the French Revolution (which started in 1789 AD.) were ones of vast, unexpected change and confusion. One of the changes was the decline of the power of the nobles, which had a severe impact on the loyalty of some of the nobles to King Louis XVI. Another change was the increasing power of the newly established middle class, …showed first 75 words of 1548 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1548 total…good politician- too bad the people were not ready for him in 1789. Historians have argued for centuries over what started the French Revolution: some say economics, some say politics some say the change of social structure. The only logical answer, then is that it was a little (or a lot) of all three, resulting in the decline of nobility, the rise of the middle class, the anger of the peasants and the fall of monarchy.