Because of the lost wars such as the War of the League of Augsburg and the Seven Years War with England, France had a war debt of half its annual budget. ... Louis XVI was unable to collect the revenues necessary to maintain the French Government and pay off its war debts. ... Napoleon proved to not only be a genius at war, but also at politics and domestic reform. ... The Magna Carta was a very early step to what England was to become; it was drafted and accepted in 1215 and was meant to protect certain general civil and inalienable rights of the people of England. ...

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Firstly, the revolt of the aristocracy, which destroyed the monarchy as the nobility sought to regain the pre eminence in the state of which Louis XVI had deprived them. ... Thus begun the revolution of the bourgeoisie, a class struggle against the aristocracy which lasted until the creation of the National assembly in June 1789.7 The bourgeoisie aimed to form civil equality and establish a regime where all men obeyed the same laws. ... Lefebvre's work is often presented as the classic interpretation, although arguably the central factor in this was the fact that World War 2 took place af...

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