... began a time of greater criticism. This sparked the peasants notion of wanting change. Under the Old Regime in France, the king was the absolute monarch. Louis XIV had centralized power in the royal bureaucracy, the government departments which administered his policies. Together, Louis XIV and the bureaucracy worked to preserve royal authority and to maintain the social structure of the ... . The National Convention met in September. The National Convention tried and convicted Louis XVI of treason. He was sentenced to death. News of his death spread all throughout Europe. Monarchs of Eur...

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... made worse by the noble's non-cooperation when it came to taxation. The nobles were determined not to give up their tax concessions. • Louis XIV and Louis XV (French monarchs) helped bankrupt France by their extravagant spending on courts as seen by the beauty and size of Versailles. • The cost of the wars was great in two ways. The ... renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties." From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (1764): "Popular government is in itself, therefore, less iniquitous, less abominable than despotic power." CONSEQUENCES OR SIGNIFI...

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