The French Revoltion was what spurred a lot of the literature we have read. Many people were tired of the aristocracy taking advantage of the working class. "Let them eat cake," Marie Antoinette famously (allegedly) said when the working class asked for bread. When the working class gets angry, revolution happens.
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