HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Common People (Song), Sans-Culottes, Great Fear
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France was fighting tons of wars which sucked the treasury dry. Due to lack of money they had to borrow money at an extremely high interest rate from private sources. Considerable amount of money was spent financing the american. After death of louis xiv (14) his successors (15th and 16th ) weren"t. Attempted to impose a major aristocratic land tax. Show clergy and nobility riding on the back of a crippled peasant. Shows the need for social reform within france. In lecture we were shown both a male and female version. 1787 aristocratic council demanded the recall of the estate"s general (a government body that hadn"t been called since 1614) Nobles thought if they could call back the estate"s general they could fight off taxation attempts a 2/3 vote to squash taxes. Nobles are hoping to join with the clergy in the estate"s general to get.
