To furnish (someone) with the qualities necessary for performance; prepare: an education that will equip you to handle such problems. [French Ã©quiper, from Old French esquiper, of Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse skipa (from skip, ship).]
(Discuss three.). The major cause of the French Revolution was the disputes between the different types of social classes in French society. The French Revolution of 1789-1799 was one of the most important events in the history of the world.
French historians traditionally place the Enlightenment between 1715, the year that Louis XIV died, and 1789, the beginning of the French Revolution. Some recent historians begin the period in the 1620s, with the start of the scientific revolution.lexis de Tocqueville described the French Revolution as the inevitable result of the radical opposition created in the 18th century between the monarchy and the men of letters of the Enlightenment. These men of letters constituted a sort of substitute aristocracy that was both all-powerful and without real power.