Throughout the 18th century, France ... French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be dismantled. Fearing powerlessness, the nobility and ...

grant any Title of Nobility. Like the corresponding ... or by the intrigues and influence of foreign powers?” Before the French Revolution, republican governments were rare: they existed only ...

Louis, like the monarchs before him ... hadn’t noticed the revolution brewing on his doorstep. France was almost bankrupt but the people who mostly had the money - the nobility and the church ...