The French Revolution was a movement of violent goverment reform. It ended the rule by French king and gave power to the middle class.Its history begins in 1789 when King Louis XVI was ruling in France and ends in 1799.That was the year that French general Napoleon Bonapart took control of the goverment.The years just before the French Revolution were times of social unrest and economic crisis.After financing and fighting in the Seven Year' War and the American Revolutionary War,Franch was deeply in dept. Planning to raise texes,King Louis called a meeting of the Easates-General. The Estates-General was a representative body whose members came from all three social classes, called eastaes. The first two esatates were made up of the clergy and nobles.Peasants,workers,and the middle class comprised the third estate This third estate was entirely responsible for providing France's entire tax revenue.Its representative body whose