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  2. French Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Revolution resulted from multiple long-term and short-term factors, culminating in a social, economic, financial and political crisis in the late 1780s. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Combined with resistance to reform by the ruling elite , and indecisive policy by Louis XVI and his ministers, the result was a crisis the state was unable to manage.

  3. Causes of the French Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The financial crisis of the French crown played a role in creating the social background to the Revolution, generating widespread anger at the court, and (arguably most importantly) forcing Louis XVI to call the Estates-General. The court was deeply in debt, which in conjunction with a poor financial system, created a crisis. [31]

  4. Economic history of France - Wikipedia

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    The Banque de France founded in 1796 helped resolve the financial crisis of 1848 and emerged as a powerful central bank. The Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris (CNEP) was established during the financial crisis and the Republican revolution of 1848. Its innovations included both private and public sources in funding large projects and the ...

  5. French Directory - Wikipedia

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    The French economy was in continual crisis during the Directory. At the beginning, the treasury was empty; the paper money, the Assignat, had fallen to a fraction of its value, and prices soared. The Directory stopped printing assignats and restored the value of the money, but this caused a new crisis; prices and wages fell, and economic ...

  6. General Maximum - Wikipedia

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    In 1793, the French Revolution caused wars with Austria, Prussia, Great Britain and Spain. The government continued to function during the economic and political crises by a series of loans, bonds and tax increases; an increasingly large amount of paper money issuance was a vain attempt to stimulate the economy. [8]

  7. Estates General of 1789 - Wikipedia

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    The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-29339-9. Soboul, Albert (1975). The French Revolution, 1787-1799: From the Storming of the Bastille to Napoleon. Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-47392-5. von Guttner, Darius (2015). The French Revolution. Nelson Modern History. Melbourne: Nelson Cengage. ISBN 9780170243995.

  8. July Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution (French: ... "The Economic Crisis of 1827–32 and the 1830 Revolution in Provincial France".

  9. Tocqueville effect - Wikipedia

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    The effect is based on Alexis de Tocqueville's observations on the French Revolution and later reforms in Europe and the United States.Another way to describe the effect is the aphorism "the appetite grows by what it feeds on". [4]