Which was a cause of the french revoultion

France had been in debt for decades and the royals were throwing parties and taxing the poor relentlessly and the poor had enough and started a revolution by storming the Bastille in 1789

As the 18th century drew to a close, France's costly involvement in the American Revolution, and extravagant spending by King Louis XVI and his predecessor, had left the country on the brink of bankruptcy.