Life in France for the common people prior to the French Revolution of 1789:
Before the revolution in France started in the year 1789, which started because the people of France were very disappointed, sad and frustrated and had a lot of debt on them so wanted their condition to get a little better.
The people who were the middle class like the poor, merchants had really bad conditions where they could barely survive with basic necessities and had to pay a lot of tax which was imposed by the officials. The government was also not working properly to improve their condition and their condition was deteriorating.