Dissecting the Causes of the French Revolution

The French Revolution can be seen as a beginning of new age. It was a disastrous event that changed the history. French Revolution went through a different steps and each event was influential moment. This huge movement started in 1789 and affected on various European countries and North America. The debate about the causes of the French Revolution will never ends. There are numbers of reasons why it has different interpretations. First reason is evidence, historical evidence sometimes has conflicts and it is snippy. Second reason is historian way of exploring the evidence; some do it through writings and others through paintings and sculptures. Last and important reason of debate about the causes of the French Revolution is political, economic

The ideas of Charles-Louis Baron de Montesquieu, Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire and Jean Jacque Rousseau were the “bibles” of both aristocratic and plebeian world. Charles-Louis Baron de Montesquieu was great political philosopher of the Enlightenment age, started with the belief that kings are evil, and their time is short. He also suggests that nobility preserves the monarchy regime. He also had views on the taxation, equality and division power that gave him influence in 1789. Some see Montesquieu “The Spirit of the Laws” book as a critique of the royal power, or the vision for a new reform. Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire was a writer historian and a famous philosopher. Many of Voltaire essays contain big criticism of the Catholic Church; he saw the religion as an essential power to the public morals. Jean Jacque Rousseau was philosopher writer and composer. He criticizes the Old Regime and the monarchy in his book “The Second Discourse on The Origins of the Inequality “he argued that the tyrant monarch could be turned out because of his subjects. In his “Social contract “ book, he developed the idea that people have their sovereignty to the king. Rousseau’s writings had shaped the political thinking of Maximilien Robespierre, member of the Estates General and the Jacobin Club. James Miller, American literary critic emphasizes that Rousseau’s ideas had a concept of democracy. The ground for the upcoming revolution, bourgeoisie were inspired by Enlightenment thinkers such as Burke and Tocqueville – the ones who saw the weakness of the “old regime”. Alexis de Tocqueville, being an aristocrat he held another view. In fact, he suggests that French Revolution was designed by most civilized men, but carried by the rudest class. His opinion base on the “administrative revolution” by Louis XVI. However Tocqueville inspires that reform was an opening to the