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The government of France
 * France was governed by King Louis the Sixteenth (Louis XVI)
 * Ruled upon absolute monarch- didn't have to share power with other people
 * Governed France with other Noble who helped him to run the affair of the nation
 * He was married to Marie Antoinette an Austrian archduchess

Financial Problems
 * Marie Antoinette
 * People didn't like Marie Antoinette
 * 1) She was foreign - called her the Austrian Woman
 * 2) Spending too much of money in apparel, and jewellery and gambling.
 * Louis gave Marie Antoinette her own palace Petit Trianon.
 * She use huge amount of money creating garden and village.
 * Many other point out the farm was pointless.
 * Marquis de Bombelles, Journal -she used tremendous amount of money for queen's hamlet, that she could spent to imptove honest peoples home
 * Not all criticize Marie Antoinette
 * Joseph Weber- She moved 12 poor family into her town.
 * Vincent Cronin- She improved the agriculture.. the farm runs on commercial line and brough in on average 6000 litre.
 * Use and abuse power
 * Many people disliked the royal government because king had too much power.
 * What people dislike was 'sealed letter'- known as royal warrant ordering imprisonment or exile of the person
 * King had the power to exile
 * King's ministers could also use them
 * This cause many other people to revolt
 * Paris lawyer complaint- The minister have abuse the power of the majesty.
 * Cruel attack on the liberty of citizens and on public safety- List on public safety of the Third Estate of Bar-sur- Seine
 * Louis XVI send 14,000 letter to who go against the gov.
 * This is one of the way king could impose his authority.
 * He could use other method to acquire what whatever he liked.
 * Other people criticised him as 'despot' - a nasty emperor
 * During 18th century French rulers was using dictatorship or tyranny
 * The Royal Debt
 * As king of the world's largest nation king, he have to face many problems.
 * The major problem that he was facing use which that his govenment was surffering from the debt
 * The government have spent more money then they got for tax
 * 1786 at one point the government was close to financial collapse.
 * An Attempt at Reform
 * To avoid bankruptey, the gov had to raise taxes.
 * Calonne, the financial minister, drew up a plan to reform the tax system
 * The biggest change will be on the tax which all the landowners had to pay.
 * Since the taxes was raise, it will be hard to pay
 * Clergy and Nobles who was exmempt from most of the taxes, did everything to avoid the tax
 * They could refuse to regist it in the Paris law courts which they control
 * This could delay the new tax coming from effect.
 * To avoid the delay, Calonne invited 150 leading noble and clergymen to paris to discuss and approve the tax
 * "The Assembly of Notable" refuse to approve the new tax,
 * They said only Estates General, sort of national pariament elected by all three estates had power.
 * Peoples have protested angrily against this
 * In Grenoble four people have died in a Day of Tiles when a mob a protesters pelted soldiers with tiles.
 * This protest went on for next six month
 * Louise ordered elections to be held four Estates General. The first day of meeting was first of may ,1789.

The summary and Question

France was governed by the emperor Louis XVI- he was rather referred to despot- one who don't have to share power with other people, he have all the power Many French civillians dislike Marie Antoinette 1. Spending too much money on personal needs 2. She is foreign. Emperor and administrators abuse the power by using the exile letter France was facing the level debt, since they are using more money than tax, they tried to reform the tax with estates general

Question

Why does French gov spent that much of money? What are some ways of reform of tax? What are reason that people don;t respect Louis XVI and the queen?

The Government of France

The government was ruled on the Emperor(biography:[]) He ruled his government on absolute monarchy.

Queen Marie Antoinette

= = = “I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.”-Queen Marie Antoinette = French citizens hated the queen for several reasons

She spent tremendous amount money on Petit Trianon



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The Financial Difficulties that France faced



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The chart shows the financial difficulties of France.