... state. Grievances were long standing. France was an absolute monarchy and a fatal weakness in the system was its inability to produce strong monarchs. Louis XVI was weak and unstable. The population was divided into three estates, with the majority belonging to the third. Although the richest ... of the hated Lettres de Cachet. A limited monarch now appeared and the National Assembly had set up eighty-three departments, had curbed the power of the church and abolished the evils of the old regime. Ironically, however, now armed with a free press, Robespierre and others soon ... with Eur...

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