jan 1, 1789 - FRANCE GOES BROKE
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From all the money poured into the American Revolution to the penny-pinching clergy, France was slowly but surely heading for bankruptcy. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't.
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