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  • 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