The financial causes of the French Revolution
The Nineteenth Century vol.33 nos.193 & 194
March & April 1893 pp.375-390, 652-670
Ferdinand James Anselm de Rothschild
Notes
Describes the financial condition of France at the time of the accession of Louis XVI, covering the fiscal system, taxes and their collection, the burdens on the peasantry, and the limits on political representation. The article seems to draw on some original source material. Ferdinand does not appear to have been a defender of the ancien régime.