Overall there were many things that contributed to the debt of the French government, from recent wars to failed trades. One war that put France into major debt was, as Dr. Darius von Güttner puts it, “the eighteenth century’s most extensive conflict, the Seven Years’ War (1756–63), which was also known as the French and Indian War” (35). The Seven Years war between Brittan and France was costly and ended up ending in the Treaty of Paris. Not only did France lose money, supplies, and military during the war but they also lost all their territory North of American mainland (Guttner 35). The French government was in debt from its previous rulers, but when Louis XVI took over ensuring wars and bad money handling led the French government deeper into their destructive debts. On the day of July 14, 1789, the oppressed and horribly mistreated people of France stormed the Bastille, which Jesse Greenspan defines as “an imposing medieval fortress and prison that served as a symbol of monarchical tyranny”, killing the guards inside, freeing the few prisoners it held, and taking all of the weapons it held and storming streets of Paris (“A French Mob Storms the Bastille, 225 Years Ago”). The storming of Bastille wasn’t just a mob gone wild, but the start of the French people not tolerating the way they were being treated by the government, and finally doing something about
Overall there were many things that contributed to the debt of the French government, from recent wars to failed trades. One war that put France into major debt was, as Dr. Darius von Güttner puts it, “the eighteenth century’s most extensive conflict, the Seven Years’ War (1756–63), which was also known as the French and Indian War” (35). The Seven Years war between Brittan and France was costly and ended up ending in the Treaty of Paris. Not only did France lose money, supplies, and military during the war but they also lost all their territory North of American mainland (Guttner 35). The French government was in debt from its previous rulers, but when Louis XVI took over ensuring wars and bad money handling led the French government deeper into their destructive debts. On the day of July 14, 1789, the oppressed and horribly mistreated people of France stormed the Bastille, which Jesse Greenspan defines as “an imposing medieval fortress and prison that served as a symbol of monarchical tyranny”, killing the guards inside, freeing the few prisoners it held, and taking all of the weapons it held and storming streets of Paris (“A French Mob Storms the Bastille, 225 Years Ago”). The storming of Bastille wasn’t just a mob gone wild, but the start of the French people not tolerating the way they were being treated by the government, and finally doing something about