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The French Revolution was a solution to the social issues that were present during its Monarchy. The distribution of labor, liability, and and debt payment was loaded on to the peasants and commoners. The Revolution was to fix this by treating all as equal. Tax payment would be the same for all and the contribution to the nations debt and development would be fair. The peasants were impoverished to the point that their main diet, bread, was scarce. The cost of a loaf of bread was equal to a peasant’s monthly salary. Store owners were condemned and hanged in suspicion that they were keeping secret stashes. During this time King Louis XVI would engorge himself in royal feasts, where bread was nothing more than a side dish. This lack of consideration had to be stopped. Another issue was the lack of voice for the serfs. Since the system of government was determined by the three estates, the nobilities, clergies and the peasants, the nobilities and the clergies would always link arms in order out rule the ideas of the peasants. Peasants consisted of 97 percent of the French population but they did not have any influence in how the nation would be run. The largest group of people in France sought liberty, where they would not be oppressed and placed under the authority of one single figure. France was heavily divided not only in power and wealth, but by their beliefs and ideals. The people of France needed to be in a mutual agreement with one another, so that future conflict could be avoided, and all groups are able to support one another. The French Revolution was a war of logic. The people did not want to be governed by the subjective emotions of a King, but rational, and justifiable reasons.

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