Relier Pairs The outbreak of the French Revolution (1789-1792)_1Version en ligne The failures of the Old Regime The rise of the Third Estate par Gehistart Artgeo 1 Social unrest 2 Tennis Court Oath 3 Economy 4 Attemps at reform 5 Estates-General 6 National Constituent Assembly 7 Assembly of Notables 8 List of Grievances 9 Political thought of the Enlightement 10 Third Estate A tax crisis was caused by overspending on the American Revolutionary War They formed a National Assembly because they considered that they were the only legitimate representative of the French people Noblemen and ecclesiastic who rejected reforms in 1787. Problems that were presented by people of the three estates to Estates-General The Third Estate, which pay taxes, resented the privileged estates that scarcely paid taxes at all. It was an assembly of all three estates It encouraged people to question royal authority when it was considered unfair and inefficie The National Assembly would become, after the Tennis Court Oath in... Commoners considered for Louis XVI’s reforms ineffective while the privileged were concerned for their way of life