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What were the main characteristics of the old regime in France?

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Here are just some listed characteristics of the Old Regime:

  • state in financial ruin.
  • new taxes need (to fix economy) but church did not pay because the didn't register royal decrees.
  • peasants took on the tax burden = poorer state.
  • further economic crisis due to Louis XVI funding the American War on Independence.

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