Historians of the French Revolution have sought to explain its origins by examining the social, political,
and cultural landscape of the eighteenth century. Among the factors leading up to the outbreak of
Revolution in 1789, scholars have emphasized divisions in the social order, the spread of Enlightenment
ideas that emphasized liberty and equality, and the economic crises that occurred late in the century. The
traditional three orders of society (clergy, nobility, and peasants) seemed less and less…
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