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Back This is a Portrait of Marie Antoinette. this was the women that was very unpopular amongst the French people mainly because she was foreign and wasted much money. They never grew to like her.

The picture below is a graph that i made showing the money that a spend by the government each year.



This Video is a video form youtube where MTV is having fun with going around King Louis XVI's 'crib'. IT seams silly however it does give you a good idea of the inside of his house.

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From Youtube.


 * The Government of France **

· Governed by king louis XVI · Ablsolute monarch · Lived in 100 room palace with nobels

Marie Antoinette · Was disliked be cause foreign · Called Austrian women(made to sound like bitch  · Spent a lot of money on clothes gamboling etc.   · She built her own little town and farm, many people were against it because instead of helping poverty she made her town look like a poor town   · Some people thought it was good because she helped settle 12 poor families.

Use and Abuse of Power · People thought king had too much power · Sealed letters from the king could put people in jail for no reasons · Many people wrote about how it is against there rights · 14000 were issued · because he could do whatever people disliked him more and more.


 * Financial problems **

The Royal Debt · government was in deep debt for nearly 100 years · the economy was about to collapse so they needed to inc tax, red. spending, or borrow money · they were spending 150 million livres more than they were making.

An attempt at reform · they had to change the tax system · many people would try to get out of the taxes causing the reform to take longer to be put into action · they called in 150 nobels to get them to agree but the did not and said they had to discuss it with the Estates General. · Louis tried to put in new tax law without approval but the nobles did not register it  · He exiled the whole parlement, which made farance mad · Day of tiles- 4 people died · Louis gave in and had an election for estates general on 1 may 1789

King Louis ruled over france but a lot of the country did not like him. He was an absolute monarch and lived in a large mansion with many nobles. he was married to Marie Antoinette who was greatly disliked by the french people. this was because they thought she was wasting money on her own little village when she could have been using it to help poverty. The french also disliked her because she was a foreigner and often had a play on words to end up calling her 'the bitch'. King Louis had started busing his power as an absolute monarch, this turned even more people against him and he lost a lot of his supporters. He was then faced with huge financial problems and to end this debt that france had been living in he decided he had to raise taxes, this led to even more people loosing their faith in him. However he could not pass this new tax reform and decided to have a new election for a new Estates General.
 * Summary**

1. Were there other reasons why people did not like Marie Antoinette? 2. Why didn't King Louis XVI want to reduce the spending of his country?
 * Questions**