... or at least that is what Jean Jaures and Mathiez would say15) and although this was a culmination of various factors, it can mainly be credited to the financial crisis. Many historians argue that foreign policies and war significantly influenced the outbreak of the French Revolution by causing great financial difficulties. Since the late 17th century, France had participated in a series ... Succession (1701-1713); the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) which left France with little territorial gain; the Seven Years War (1756-1763) which merely added to the debt; culminating in t...

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... of the legislature. Britain's largest and most important Canadian colony at the time was Quebec, which Britain acquired from France in 1763 through the signing of the Treaty of Paris at the end of the Seven Years' War. Quebec's inhabitants, almost all French-speaking Roman Catholics, were thought to be uninterested in the representative legislature. Furthermore, English law did not allow Catholics ... council in accordance with the wishes of the majority in the colony's legislative assembly. "The task of the governor was to choose councillors with some influence, use their advice to pre...

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