What caused the financial strains on France that necessitated Louis XVI to increase taxes?
A. Debt from the aid France provided in the American Revolution
B. Questioning in the Enlightenment age regarding the idea of Divine Right and Absolutism
C. Bad harvests and famines in the 1780s caused an increase in the price of bread
D. The unequal tax burden imposed on the third estate
E. All of these.
Answer: E
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