Question

The French Revolution was caused by all of the following factors or reasons, EXCEPT:
A. Poor harvests that led to increased food prices and famine
B. Lavish and outrageous spending by the French good
C. Child labor due to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
D. The French government getting involved with foreign conflicts

Answer 1

French Revolution, also called Revolution of 1789, revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first climax there in 1789—hence the conventional term “Revolution of 1789,” denoting the end of the ancien régime in France and serving also to distinguish that event from the later French revolutions of 1830 and 1848.