What were the causes of the French Revolution? How did it differ from the American Revolution? The decline of absolutism in the eighteenth century has questionable led to possible causes of the French Revolution. The French Revolution was a civil dispute over the emerging bourgeoisie class over those in the aristocracy. The aristocracy was the only thing that separated the bourgeoisie class from the aristocracy; it was the only thing that prevented them from being …showed first 75 words of 1505 total…

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