In an era of bad harvests, famine, and rioting, the French government took steps to improve the worsening financial crisis. What
did the government do? The government raised taxes. The government called for genuine political reform. The government forced all estates to pay the same taxes. The government reduced the Third Estate’s tax burden.
France had monarchy as its form of government. After the King of France had borrowed heavily to retain his extravagant lifestyle as well as the fact that the Kingdom of France was largely indebted, the king had no other option but to increase taxes paid by commoners in France.
This happened in an era of bad harvests and famine. The commoners depended mostly on bread to survive. This made the cost of bread to alarmingly increase and most people were hungry and starving.
