The rise of new intellectual values of the Enlightenment Age, the economic crisis and the concomitant heavy tax burden on the ordinary people after the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), and the demand of participation in political decision making processes by newly emerged socio-economic classes all led France into turmoil by objecting Old Regime (Ancien Régime). The earlier aspects of the Old Regime such as feudality, nobility, patrimonialism and monarchy started to be questioned (Furet, 1996, pp. 3-40).