. However, if an alternate government presents itself during this time, then people generally seem more willing to give them a chance and, by the time the new government's grace-period has run out the crisis has ended, and there is little real change.
I don't quite understand what you are getting at here. Are you suggesting that if there's an option to change leadership in a peacable and orderly fashion people usually take it rather than revolt? Because, yes that seems fairly obvious - most revolutions are acts of desperation to some degree, people do generally like order and revolutions are frightening and unpredictable.
Maybe Louis wouldn't have failed so miserably if the people had seen him as sympathetic rather than being so exorbitant...
I think people did see him as sympathetic, just not much use. If he had had the courage to make himself damn unpopular - by forcing through tax reform, abolishing the parlements, cutting state expendature etc he might have stood a chance.
Just seeing the standard of life royalty had back then is sickening, especially comparing it to everyone else's!
Well yes, although I wonder what they would make of us flying stawberries to another continent to be chopped up and then flown back just so we don't have to chop our fruit ourselves. It's easy to condemn the past, after all.
I wonder why that is, because it seems like food is at its lowest during winter...
In Northern Europe, I think April/May is usully the hungriest time as grain stocks are just about used up but fruit etc has not yet ripened. By July, one generally knows if the harvest had failed or not, and in 1789 it was obvious that the harvest had been bad, so the price of grain went up, and then bread. I think.
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I don't quite understand what you are getting at here. Are you suggesting that if there's an option to change leadership in a peacable and orderly fashion people usually take it rather than revolt? Because, yes that seems fairly obvious - most revolutions are acts of desperation to some degree, people do generally like order and revolutions are frightening and unpredictable.
Maybe Louis wouldn't have failed so miserably if the people had seen him as sympathetic rather than being so exorbitant...
I think people did see him as sympathetic, just not much use. If he had had the courage to make himself damn unpopular - by forcing through tax reform, abolishing the parlements, cutting state expendature etc he might have stood a chance.
Just seeing the standard of life royalty had back then is sickening, especially comparing it to everyone else's!
Well yes, although I wonder what they would make of us flying stawberries to another continent to be chopped up and then flown back just so we don't have to chop our fruit ourselves. It's easy to condemn the past, after all.
I wonder why that is, because it seems like food is at its lowest during winter...
In Northern Europe, I think April/May is usully the hungriest time as grain stocks are just about used up but fruit etc has not yet ripened. By July, one generally knows if the harvest had failed or not, and in 1789 it was obvious that the harvest had been bad, so the price of grain went up, and then bread. I think.