What were the long range and immediate causes of the French Revolution?

What were the long range and immediate causes of the French Revolution? What aspects of the revolutionaries鈥?goals endured?|||Hi,





Here are the three main causes of the French revolution of 1789:





- A political crisis http://bastille-day.com/history/Politica鈥?/a>


The French population was divided in 3 estates.


The first two (the Clergy and the Nobility) concentrated all the powers.


The Third estate, which represented the poorest citizen, wanted more rights and the dissolution of the Ancien Regime system.





- An economic crisis http://bastille-day.com/history/Economic鈥?/a>


The tax system was unfair (only the poorest citizen were paying taxes).


The king personal spending were huge.


The American war of independence cost France a lot while the country already had a huge debt.





- A philosophical movement


The ideas of the Enlightened (Voltaire, Rousseau) on Freedom and Equality paved the way of the French Revolution.





Cheers.|||There are a lot of sites on this subject, and good books, too. You need to read them.





A very interesting if slightly controversial book, if you want to look for one, is Simon Schama's "Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution."





I'm giving you a few sites, but there are more:|||http://prezi.com/k1lcl0v-ssd-/the-french鈥?/a>