However, when high taxes and disturbing questions about the Enlightenment were sprung upon the French citizens, mainly the Third Estate of the Old Regime, the people needed a change.Thus the French Revolution was started by such causes as the thoughts of Voltaire and Rousseau in the Enlightenment, weak leadership by King Louis XVI in his incapability to solve France’s financial problems, and the sudden power felt by the French radicals.The once powerful economy of the French was ruined as taxes corrupted their trade and production industries.As this group, making up 98 percent.