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<blockquote data-quote="reuben" data-source="post: 91255" data-attributes="member: 3385"><p>I would have thought a quick examination of the causes of the French Revolution would be worthwhile. I am trying to remember my history from school but I think that it had to do with:</p><p></p><p>1. Prolonged foreign wars (in America and Italy)</p><p>2. Increased taxation to pay for war</p><p>3. Rampant inflation due to lack of supply of goods and food as a result of war</p><p>4. Starvation within Paris itself.</p><p>5. Clear demaraction of the aristocracy and the people. The Aristo's were OK cos they could afford food. The people could not. Whilst they starved the Court continued to squander tax on pointless foreign wars and was unresponsive to demands for change.</p><p>6. The Army were not paid due to economic crisis and switched sides.</p><p></p><p>In those circumstances you can understand why a population would want to change the form of government. I don't understand why the population in your campaign would want to follow yet another autocrat. Surely they would wish to gain more power as a group. Why not have the prince be an idealist who wishes to bring democracy to the nation? Or have him wish to establish a parliamentary monarchy like in England after the civil war where the King become subservient to Parliament.</p><p></p><p>As for actions that revolutionaries might take, the jacobins printed and distributed seditious political leaflets for which many were executed.</p><p></p><p>Some were driven to murder of aristocrats e.g. Marat most famously.</p><p></p><p>There were demonstrations</p><p></p><p>Aristocrats might be pelted with rotten detritus.</p><p></p><p>The following site has good links to all sorts of stuff about the french revolution:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://history.evansville.net/revoluti.html" target="_blank">http://history.evansville.net/revoluti.html</a></p><p></p><p>Hope that helps!</p><p></p><p>Vive la revolution!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="reuben, post: 91255, member: 3385"] I would have thought a quick examination of the causes of the French Revolution would be worthwhile. I am trying to remember my history from school but I think that it had to do with: 1. Prolonged foreign wars (in America and Italy) 2. Increased taxation to pay for war 3. Rampant inflation due to lack of supply of goods and food as a result of war 4. Starvation within Paris itself. 5. Clear demaraction of the aristocracy and the people. The Aristo's were OK cos they could afford food. The people could not. Whilst they starved the Court continued to squander tax on pointless foreign wars and was unresponsive to demands for change. 6. The Army were not paid due to economic crisis and switched sides. In those circumstances you can understand why a population would want to change the form of government. I don't understand why the population in your campaign would want to follow yet another autocrat. Surely they would wish to gain more power as a group. Why not have the prince be an idealist who wishes to bring democracy to the nation? Or have him wish to establish a parliamentary monarchy like in England after the civil war where the King become subservient to Parliament. As for actions that revolutionaries might take, the jacobins printed and distributed seditious political leaflets for which many were executed. Some were driven to murder of aristocrats e.g. Marat most famously. There were demonstrations Aristocrats might be pelted with rotten detritus. The following site has good links to all sorts of stuff about the french revolution: [url]http://history.evansville.net/revoluti.html[/url] Hope that helps! Vive la revolution!! [/QUOTE]
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