Revolutionary Factors
- Agricultural Failures
- Blocked Social Mobility
- Censorship and Repression
- Corruption of the Aristocracy
- Crisis of the Ancien Régime
- Debt from Wars
- Desire for Constitutional Government
- Diamond Necklace Affair
- Economic Hardship
- Enlightenment Ideas
- Extravagance of the Monarchy
- Failure of Reforms
- Failure of the Estates-General
- Famine and Bread Shortages
- Feudalism
- Financial Crisis
- Harsh Winters Leading to Crop Failures
- Heavy Taxation on the Peasantry
- Ineffective Governance
- Ineffective Ministers
- Inefficient Tax System
- Inequality Before the Law
- Inflation
- Influence of Philosophes
- Influence of the American Revolution
- Lack of Political Representation
- Oppression of the Third Estate
- Population Growth
- Privileges of the First and Second Estates
- Regressive Taxation
- Resentment of Church Privileges
- Resentment of Lettres de Cachet
- Resentment of the Seigneurial System
- Resentment of the Tithe to the Church
- Rise of the Bourgeoisie
- Role of the Parlements
- Social Stratification
- Spread of Revolutionary Ideas through Pamphlets and Salons
- Tax Exemptions for Nobility and Clergy
- Unemployment among Urban Workers
- Weak Leadership