Nonetheless, the sheer costs of the 1778–1783 war—totaling m
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
Nonetheless, the sheer costs of the 1778–1783 war—totaling more than France’s three previous wars together—and the failure to reform national finances interacted with the growing political discontents, economic distress, and social malaise to discredit the ancien régime. From 1787 onward, as the internal crisis worsened, France seemed ever less capable of playing a decisive role in foreign affairs.
chapter: The Winning of Wars, 1763–1815