Ranker (Video) 11 Ways Corruption Led to the French Revolution Posted: February 12, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 Though Marie Antoinette may not have actually said, “Let them eat cake ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants ... and the common people (the Third Estate). The Third Estate disagre ...

In the late 1700s, the King of France, Louis XVI, ruled with absolute power over his people. This was a country ... much more than simply a mob. The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchy. Today, the fortress is no more, but the square remains a ...

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals Teresa Nowakowski Some of the gems may have featured ...