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Why was the French government bankrupt in 1789?

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Why did the French government go bankrupt in 1789? B y 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn’t. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing than governing, recognized that a crisis loomed.

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