french revolution
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The French Revolution began in 1789 and ended in 1799. In the French society there were three financial groups or estates. The clergy were the priests, monks, etc. The nobles were the merchants, traders, mainly the common people. The last group were the peasants, and farmers or the working people, and they were basically everyone else. Each group paid a different amount of taxes, and the working people paid the most. This was how the French society was organized.
Some causes that led to the revolution were the ideas that the people had. The three ideas were absolute monarchy (unlimited authority by the king), divine right (when the monarch ruled under God's authority), and freedom (which was government by the people). These were ideas that were brought to the king...