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How did the peasants contribute to the outbreak of the French Revolution?

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From the point of view of the peasants, rapid population growth, harvest failures, physiocratic calls for modernization of agriculture, and rising seigneurial dues motivated peasants to destroy feudalism in France. they played a major role in starting the French Revolution in 1789.
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The peasants contributed the the outbreak of the French Revolution as they were motivated from the rapid population growth, harvest failures, physiocratic calls for modernization and rising seigneurial dues which led to them playing a major role in 1789
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