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59 lines
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### == 3 estates ==
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1st - Clergy
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2nd - Nobility
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Held top jobs
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3rd - Everyone else
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Bourgeoisie to peasants
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Known as the **ancien regime**
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### == The Third Estate ==
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Included a huge range of French citizens
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- Most were rural peasants
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- Others were poor, urban workers
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Common grievances
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- Top jobs closed to them
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- Bore the burden of taxes
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- Even small price increases could be crippling
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### == Hard Economic Times ==
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Huge national debt
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- Contributing factors
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- Louis XIV's lavish lifestyle
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- Deficit spending
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- 7 Years War
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- Overwhelming interest payments
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Unsuccessful reforms
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- Louis XVI was weak and Necker was dismissed after suggesting Louis tax the 1st and 2nd estates
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Calling the Estates General
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- A body made of representatives from the three estates
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- Did not have the power of the purse
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- Each estate was asked to prepare a **cahier**
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### == From Estates General to National Assembly ==
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Traditionally, each estate got one vote
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- 1. Clergy, 2. Nobles, 3. Everyone else
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- Unequal - 96% of population only had 33% of the say
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The king and his ministers tried to strengthen the 3rd estate
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The estates had to decide how votes would be counted in the new session
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Members that represented the 3rd Estate thought all the estates should vote together
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- A standoff ensued
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June 1789: the Third Estate declared themselves the National Assembly
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June 19th - the Second Estate voted to join them
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### == Tennis Court Oath ==
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When the King locked them out of their building, they met in an indoor tennis court
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Vowed to continue to meet until there was a "just constitution"
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### == The Bastille ==
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A symbol of Tyranny
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Parisians believed there were weapons inside
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- They were forming a militia to protect the national assembly
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- A mob gathered to claim them
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- First major conflict of the revolution
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