The cause of The Revolution was a handful of struggles for the French people including that the Empire stipped the fiscal resources of the state, the political conflict between the nobility and the monarchy because of the tax system and eventual bankruptcy. Plus the new ideas that were born of The Enlightenment including Montequieu’s Spirit of the Laws; introduces and  Rousseau’sSocial Contract. It lasted a decade with the conclusion being Napoleon causing a coup and becoming First Consul of the Republic.