French Revolution

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system. The cost of support to America was not just associated with money. Already in France a new school of thought was developing amongst the Bourgeoisie. This was further aided by the transmission of Revolutionary thoughts from America back into France. Many French Troops (mainly the Bourgeoisie) came back encouraged by the revolution to introduce a revolution in France. The Nobility were long discouraged by their loss of rights. They worked back into surrounding the monarchy with themselves in positions of power. The special concern of the nobles was to see that the King did not introduce tax reform. They wanted more political power to make sure events like this did not happen. While they denounced the monarchy’s absolutism they wanted to set up their own form of it. The ideas attracted the peasants for two reasons. Firstly they related to peasant grievances and secondly the Bourgeoisie was really the only class that the peasants associated with. The peasants saw the idea of tax reform and equality as the way to the abolition of the seign...