In the Fifty Years Before the Outbreak of the French

In the fifty years before the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, the French economy was

A) growing due to an expansion of foreign trade and industrial production.
B) stagnant due to foreign competition in industry and trade.
C) declining rapidly due to overuse of arable land.
D) ruined by the collapse of the textile industry.
E) entirely based upon agricultural production.