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Question: What do you think about the French Revolution!?
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I think the revolution was justified to obtain more rights for the common people and a more equal representation in parliament for the Third Estate etc!. But I think it would have been better if Louis XVI had been kept as a constituional monarch and if the excesses of The Terror had not happened!.

Louis XVI did actually make attempts to reform the political system in France before the revolution, he tried to introduce a fairer taxation system for instance, but was prevented by the selfishness of the aristocracy!. If his reforms had been allowed to go through, there might never have been a revolution!.

And while it is true that the King and Queen lived a lavish lifestyle, it is not really true to say that Marie Antoinette took food from the common people (as a comment above suggests)!. The personal spending of the royal family accounted for only a tiny fraction of state expenditure, and was not the cause of FRance's economic ills!. And both Louis and Marie Antoinette gave generously to the poor in times of hardship!. They were not indifferent to the conditions of the common people!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think the French Revolution was inevitable especially after the American Revolution!.
A small, insignificant upstart, half way across the world (the Americans)!.!.!.!. with their assistance of course!.!.!.!.beat the strongest army in the world!.!.!.the British!.
Why couldn't they!?

The French at that time were historically intelligent, free thinkers, strong people!.!.!.!.!.that were being controlled by this outlandish, free spending, free living aristocracy!.

A French aristocrat would spend more money on a wig than one of his peasants spent on food to feed his family for a year!.

There were huge spaces between the haves and the have nots in France at that time!.

Revolution was inevitable!.
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i think it was cool!.!.!.the queen deserved what she got! thats what happens when your selfish! she took food from the poor town people and used it for her own party!. most of the food was thrown in the garbage and the poor people where really hungry!. why take food that people need if your just going to throw it awayWww@QuestionHome@Com

it was boringWww@QuestionHome@Com

I don't think about it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com