<Li> Financial: France's debt, aggravated by French involvement in the American Revolution, led Louis XVI to implement new taxations and to reduce privileges . </Li> <Li> Political: Louis XVI faced strong opposition from provincial parlements which were the spearheads of the privileged classes' resistance to royal reforms . </Li> <Li> Economic: The deregulation of the grain market, advocated by liberal economists, resulted in an increase in bread prices. ((Citation needed date = March 2018)) In periods of bad harvests, it would lead to food scarcity which would prompt the masses to revolt . </Li> <P> All these factors created a revolutionary atmosphere and a tricky situation for Louis XVI . In order to resolve the crisis, the king summoned the Estates - General in May 1789 and, as it came to an impasse, the representatives of the Third Estates formed a National Assembly, against the wishes of the king, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution . </P>

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