French Revolution The French Revolution was successful because change did occur. The problems that prompted the people to strive for change included starvation, economic trouble and weak leadership. The people tried to accomplish change through storming in the Bastille, National Assembly and the women’s march on Versaille. The Revolution resulted in the death of the king, rise of Napoleon and congress of Vienna; which revealed that revolution did not lead to change in France.
Starvation, economic problems as well as weak leadership led people to want change. People wanted to fix starvation because bread prices were expensive. Another problem they wanted to change was the problems of the economy because taxes were too high for the peasants. The women’s march on Versaille was an interesting march because it included thousands of women furious over how high bread prices were. These women carried weapons such as; knifes axes, and pitch forks to kill guards when they broke into the palace. One last problem they had to fix was weak leadership from Louis and Marie. Louis would react slow when problems would break out, as for Marie she would spend the money as if money grew on trees. Buying clothes, throwing parties and splurging her-self with jewelry would be the things she would spend the money on.
Revealing how people tried to bring about change of government, society was the events of the storming of the Bastille, National Assembly and the women’s march on Versaille. The storming of the Bastille was an interesting attack towards Louis swiss guards because peasants broke into the Bastille that held many weapons. While the peasants were collecting weapons they killed several guards, chopped their heads off and placed them on their pikes. The national assembly was created by the 3rd estate because the 3rd estate demanded each delegate to be given a vote so they