The question of whether the French Revolution was due to social conflict or the political collapse of the monarchy is a complicated question. Brinten in the anatomy of Revolution believes that Revolution's cannot occur in politically stable countries naturally enough, Revolution's occur in inefficient centralized governments that are likely to collapse due to war and lack of money. There must also be a loss of confidence in the army or the ruling elite. All of these examples were evident in pre-revolutionary France and all of these reasons contributed to the insurrection that followed. One of the primary reasons of this insurrection was the financial state of the country due to the inefficient waste of money on the pursuit of power and revenge.

As Gwynne Lewis argues in the French Revolution rethinking the debate, France was extremely keen to be a world power. However they also wanted revenge on Britain after the disasters of the seven years war. They had been pushed out of Canada, undermined in India and challenged in the West Indies, this enraged the Frenc

The great failure of the monarchy was the fact that they paid such little attention to where all this money was coming from. It was an indication of what a bad ruler Louis was that he never questioned the ludicrous fact that while financing a war there had in no increase in taxes. Even in 1785 when members of the Parliament of Paris began to object vehemently to these loans and the king instead agreeing with them called them to Versailles to tell them that he had the fullest confidence in his Comptroller-General. A British charge d'affaires noted in that while publicly the economy seemed well the plight of the poor was once again forgotten

" Easing the burdens of the people and the interest of the nation seem to be as perfectly disregarded as they ever where by the most corrupt of his [Ca and Callonne] predecessors ".

"in a country so exercised about the threat and the evils of despotism."

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