Describe the causes of french revolution.

The society was divided into three estates. 1. 1st Estate: Clergy (Group of persons involved in church matters) 2. 2nd Estate: Nobility (Persons who have high rank in state administration) 3. 3rd Estate: (Comprises of Big businessmen, merchants, court officials, lawyers, Peasants and artisans, landless labour, servants) • First two classes were exempted from paying taxes. They enjoyed privileges by birth. Nobility classes also enjoyed feudal privileges. • Only the members of the third estate had to pay taxes to the state.1774 and found empty treasury. • Long years of war had drained the financial resources of France. • Under Louis XVI, France helped the thirteen American colonies to gain their independence from the common enemy, Britain which added more than a billion livres to a debt that had already risen to more than 2 billion livres. • An extravagant court at the immense palace of Versailles also cost a lot.