The causes of this event was the considerable debt the French had due to the British. Another cause was due to the heavy taxes on the poor and very little tax for the rich, thus the poor become poorer and the rich become richer
Great Fear, French Grande Peur, (1789) in the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate.
