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(iv) Louis XVI wanted voting to be conducted on the old principle-each estate having one vote. But the members of the third estate demanded that voting now be conducted by the Assembly as a whole, where each member would have one vote. (v) The king rejected their demand as a result of which they walked out of the Assembly in protest.
(i) Long years of wars had drained the financial resources of France. The condition became severe when under Louis XVI, France helped the thirteen American colonies to gain their independence from Britain. (ii) The king's court at the immense palace of Versailles was extravagant. A huge amount of money was required for its maintenance.
(i) Louis XVI ascended the throne of France in 1774. He was just twenty years old at that time and was quite unaware of the problems of the common mass. (ii) Upon his accession, the royal treasury was empty. Instead of curtailing his own extravaganza, he increased taxes. This brought severe dissatisfaction among the French people.
Louis XVI of the Bourbon dynasty was married to the Austrian princess _____. View Solution ...
King Louis XVI was afraid that he will lose all his political powers and right to make decisions because of the new constitution which he had signed. So he entered into secret negotiations with the Kings of Austria and Prussia in order to suppress the French people and their revolution.
Arrange the following in the chronological order : A. Napoleon becomes the emperor of France B. Third Estate forms National Assembly C. Louis XVI becomes the king of France D.
What compelled Louis XVI to raise taxes in France? View Solution. Q4.
Louis XVI called an assembly of Estates General to pass proposals for new taxes on 5th May 1789. The Estates General represented the French estates in the realm. This law was brought to an end when the Third Estate was formed and created in the National Assembly.
Ways in which Louis XVI helped to contribute to the outbreak of the French Revolution are (i) Louis XVI, the ruler of France, was a pleasure-loving, extravagant ruler who believed in the divine rights of the king. (ii) He was ignorant and indifferent to the conditions of the poor.
After the failure of French Constitution of 1791, the revolution continued. The elected Legislative Assembly members drafted a new constitution and jailed King Louis XVI. In 1793 King Louis XVI and the Last French Queen was sentenced to death.
