What was the condition of french society in eighteenth century?

Answer 1

In the late1780's the conditions in France where horrible. Food prices were sky rocketing because of bad crops. The taxes were too mainly because of King Louis XVI and Antoinette's spending and putting them selves to far into debt. This left the poor people more poor because they were basically spending all their paychecks on the taxes. Only the nobles and other higher ranking people didn't have to pay any taxes. The King and Queen showed no concern what so ever of the well being of their kingdom. They King and Queen abused their power. This Forced France into more debt then what it was when King Louis XVI took the throne.

Answer 2

Like many nations at that time (and even some in the developing world today) social conditions for a small minority of people were very good. The well-off and those with private incomes, and, above all, the aristocracy (those related to the royal family) lived in absolute luxury. If you visit France today, and visit, as a tourist, some of the castles and country houses that date from this period that are open to the public, you will get some idea of the opulence that these people enjoyed. Rooms lavishly decorated, food brought in at great expense from far off lands, fine clothes, ability to travel and so on were daily expectations of life for these people.

However, for the vast majority of France life was very different. The majority worked on the land or lived in poverty in the large cities. Disease was widespread, malnutrition was commonplace, and generally people lived in squalour. To say that the rich aristocrats did not care was an understatement; they not only did not care, but continually upped taxation so that the poor became even poorer and the rich even richer. Any attempt at a revolt was quickly squashed and the perpetrators executed swiftly.

However, towards the end of the 1700s the poor did stage a successful coup, and the French Revolution began. A notorious French prison, the Bastille, was stormed and its occupants released. Mounting pressure by a huge number of the poorest people in France eventually made the aristocracy crumble. Almost all the aristocrats were rounded up, stood trial, and were executed by guillotine. The revolution came to a head when both the king (Louis) and his queen Marie Antoinette were executed in a square in Paris (La Place de la Concorde) - a place which is still there today.

If you travel to London and visit Madame Tussaud's Wax museum, in the chamber of horrors is the blade that executed the king and Marie Antoinette - still bloodstained from those violent times.

Nowadays France is a republic with a president (like the USA). However, because a few aristocrats did escape the Revolution, there are still alive today some of the descendents of those aristocrats, including the heir to the French throne, if ever France decided to return to a monarchy.

Answer 3

The social structure was:

• First was the priests very rich, powerful and influencle
• Second were kings/nobles very rich absolute monarch
• The third group was divided into two: bourgeois's - merchants, doctor's, lawyers, etc. and common people, the poor, exploited, and suffering

Answer 4

the economic condition of France was quit worse as the king Louis xvi was spending most of the country budget on interest payment because of the lone taken for war . now to meet the regular expenses he was forced to increase taxes on the people . but this measure was also fail because of the feudal system i.e.. the clergy and the nobles didn't pay taxes so the the burden of the financing activities of the state was borne alone by the third estate alone who were them self not financially stable as they were the poor farmers landless labours.

Answer 5

French society in the eighteenth century was wracked by instability and class conflict. The excesses of the nobility had stirred up great resentment.

Answer 6

The country was in an economic crisis caused in part by royal excesses during previous reigns and the cost of aiding the United States during its Revolution.