France had twenty million people living within its borders. Within a century that number increased by another eight to ten million people who left France. This caused food shortages and an increase in disease throughout France. In 1789, approximately 600,000 people lived in Paris alone. Only a small number of other cities such as Lyon, Bordeaux and Marseille had more than 100,000 people living within them. This has caused a lot of tensions inside and outside the cities. Once it began, the agrarian crisis destroyed most of the crops that had been used to feed the millions of people it could. The agrarian crisis was a hailstorm that destroyed all the crops in France and when the government did not want to help the citizens, the riots began. The French king Louis XIV also played a role in the cause of the French Revolution. Louis Louis XIV organized an assembly for representatives of the clergy, the nobility and the middle class. This type of assembly had not taken place since 1614. Before the assembly, delegates from all three states created a list of grievances to present to the king. The meeting was supposed to be held in May 5,