1. Louis XVI was crowned as a French monarch when France faced extreme financial crises.
2. Louis XVI had made an honest effort to bring France out of the financial difficulties with the help of his finance ministers Turgot, Necker and Calonne.
3. He had convened a meeting of the nobles and put before them his finance ministers’ proposal to levy taxes on the noble.
4. He had also explained to them the difficulties the country would face if the proposal was not accepted.
5. The nobles, however, were adamant and refused to accept the proposal, Louis XVI convened the Estates General, the representative’s body of all the three classes in France.