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By 1788, France was facing a major financial crisis due to immense debts incurred from costly wars in the 18th century, especially supporting the American colonies in their revolution from 1778-1783. Several finance ministers, known as Controller-Generals, tried to introduce reforms to tax the nobility and clergy to solve the crisis, but faced opposition. Their failure to resolve the crisis through reforms against the nobility
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