Covering the series of events the leads to the tinderbox of French life that enables the French Revolution. From the day-to-day life of the hundreds of thousands of peasants and migrant workers, their meagre subsistence living, to the nobility and growing bourgeois middle class and court of Versailles that has slow turned the French government at every level into a plutocracy able to be bought and sold.

For the right price, even ascension into the upper echelons of the noble class is available. By the 1780's no less than 2 new noble families per day had managed to buy their way into the increasingly top heavy world of the ultra rich. Yet, even as the old money and new money nobles squabble over what few realms of advancement are left to them, the peasants and lowest of the professional classes struggle just to leave. With up to 1/2 of of a peasants salary spent just on food, and rarely able to afford a family of 2 or even 3 with income that has not increased in 50 years.

Can a Plutocratic government survive, or will the lower classes crushed by the greed of the wealthy rise up and effect change? Let's find out what life was like in 1780's France as we get stuck in on the French Revolution.

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