the telephone, it changed the way people communicate in a quicker and easier way
Taxes.
The tax burden in France, prior to the French Revolution, fell on the shoulders of the 98% of the population that made up the Third Estate. The First Estate consisted of the clergy, and the Second Estate was the nobility. Those two estates overlapped in some ways, because high ranking church officials functioned as a form of aristocracy too. And the two leading Estates colluded with one another to keep the system operating the way it was, with them having all the privileges and powers underneath the monarchy.
Vichy Government
The government was based from the southern french spa town of Vichy. It was a term of surrender following the German invasion of France, the Germans controlled northern france including Paris.
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