The National Assembly: The Causes: In the 18th century in France, there was a horrible economy, since Louis XIV spent a lot of money on wars and buildings, so France needed new sources of income. The main way to do this was taxes. However, the peasantry was already squeezed dry. So, they went to the nobles to demand money. However, the parlements resisted this, and they could annul laws. Therefore, Louis XV stopped convening them. …showed first 75 words of 2592 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2592 total…Roman Tribunes who wanted to distribute grain to the people. His attempt would fail, but he is important because of the equal distribution of grain looks towards to socialism. Babeuf is also important because he believed that the peasants were too uneducated to make a revolution, so they needed a small group of people to educate them and to incite them to revolt. He was a forerunner of the conspiratorial socialism we see with Lenin.