Tag: Peasants in French Revolution
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Taxes, Tithing, and Rumors: The Peasantry in the French Revolution
Complaints of an unfair tax system. Cries of inequality and a widening income gap. Rumors of impending doom. No, we are not talking about 2013. These were the themes which put a twist in the French Revolution of 1789. Here’s a short essay I wrote on the subject a while back. As the French bourgeoisie…