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What is the economic cause of the french revolution

France was in a major economic crisis before the French Revolution. There was a royal debt; the French government kept spending more money than it was receiving by taxes. By 1786 the government realised the problem they were in, but they were already far into it by then. At this time there was immense poverty in France, even though some people in France were very rich a large amount of them were poor. Taxes were high and so were prices, but the wages were low. Unable to provide for their families the lower classes of France were also in an economical crisis, which was one of the things that drove them to revolt.


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