The Industrial Revolution began with the English textile industry, which soon became factory-focused, and very quickly almost all of the other English industries became factory-focused. People flooded into the cities as civilization rapidly switched from agricultural to industrial. All these machines and factories cost money, and the English were very adept at making ends meet, so this wasn't much of a problem. However, for their mortal enemy, France, it was a huge problem. France needed to catch up to England, but they wanted canals, roads, machines, factories, and everything else they could think of right now. those things were good and necessary, but France didn't have the funds to get them all right away, and it plunged behind England.
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