The World War And What Was Behind It

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The World War And What Was Behind It
Bénézet Louis Paul
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Money was stolen by courtofficials. Paris was the gayest capital in the world, the home offashion, art, and frivolity and the poor peasants paid the bills.
[Illustration: The Taking of The Bastille] For years, there had been mutterings. The people were ripe for arevolt, but they had no weapons, and there was no one to lead them. Atlast, came a time when there was no money in the royal treasury. Afterall the waste and corruption, nothing was left to pay the army andkeep up the expenses of the go
...vernment. One minister of finance afteranother tried to devise some scheme whereby the country might meet itsdebts, but without success. The costly wars and wasteful extravagancesof the past hundred years were at last to bring a reckoning. Indesperation, the king summoned a meeting of representative men fromall over the kingdom. There were three classes represented, thenobles, the clergy, and what was called "the third estate, " whichmeant merchants, shopkeepers, and the poor gentlemen. A greatstatesman appeared, a man named Mirabeau.

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