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 1785 servicing debts cost

37\.5% of revenue 

1786 there was a deficit of

112 million livres (25% revenue)

**“All erudite and**

**educated people”**

**4000 pamphlets produced between**

**May 1788 and April 1789** 

**250 newspapers in**  

**Paris**

**“War of words fueled**

**by Louis’ indecision”**

“permitting such nests and

hotbeds of sedition and revolt”

Sieyes Pamphlet Key Ideas:

1. form a national assembly
2. equal representation
3. vote together 

shackled and

oppressed

free and

flourishing

cahiers submitted

**60 000**

cahiers submitted from peasant communities 

**40 000**

“the most democratic spectacle ever seen

in the history of Europe”

“a certain omen of

impending reform”

“the mass politicisation of

social friction”