Estates-General
List of Grievances
Political thought of the Enlightement
National Constituent Assembly
Economy
Assembly of Notables
Attemps at reform
Social unrest
Third Estate
Tennis Court Oath
The Third Estate, which pay taxes, resented the privileged estates that scarcely paid taxes at all.
It encouraged people to question royal authority when it was considered unfair and inefficie
It was an assembly of all three estates
A tax crisis was caused by overspending on the American Revolutionary War
Problems that were presented by people of the three estates to Estates-General
Commoners considered for Louis XVI’s reforms ineffective while the privileged were concerned for their way of life
Noblemen and ecclesiastic who rejected reforms in 1787.
The National Assembly would become, after the Tennis Court Oath in...
They formed a National Assembly because they considered that they were the only legitimate representative of the French people