I'm studying the french revolution and this seems to be a pretty major issue. Where does the blame lie for the failure of France's constitutional monarchy. A lot of historians discuss this but in a reasonably indirect way which brings me to my second question:

Are there any historians who deal with this question directly? I'd love to read a historian making an argument one way or the other rather than just going through the narrative of the revolution and subtly lacing it with their own opinions.

I'm having trouble untangling the factors and deciding what my own opinion is on this topic

thank you