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 Economy 2 National Constituent Assembly 3 Estates-General 4 Social unrest 5 List of Grievances 6 Third Estate 7 Assembly of Notables 8 Attemps at reform 9 Political thought of the Enlightement 10 Tennis Court Oath It encouraged people to question royal authority when it was considered unfair and inefficie A tax crisis was caused by overspending on the American Revolutionary War Noblemen and ecclesiastic who rejected reforms in 1787. They formed a National Assembly because they considered that they were the only legitimate representative of the French people The Third Estate, which pay taxes, resented the privileged estates that scarcely paid taxes at all. 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 It was an assembly of all three estates Problems that were presented by people of the three estates to Estates-General