The Meeting of the Estates General
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he Estates-General was made upof three groups, or estates. Theassembly was called to solve thefinancial crisis and pass a new taxlaw. Each estate was a social class.The First Estate was made up of the priests of the Roman CatholicChurch. The Second Estate was thenobles, and the third was therepresentatives of the peasants. Eachestate had one vote and met in aseparate hall to decide what their vote on the issue was going to be.
The Estates-General assembly in 1789
Although the peasants had their voice, they were not happy. The Third Estate representedmost of the people in France. For every nobleman or priest in France, there were a hundredcommoners. But the Third Estate together got just one vote, meaning their opinion had novalue if the noblemen and clergy disagreed with them. The Third Estate tried to change this bysuggesting that the estates get one vote for every delegate they had. King Louis turned downtheir request.
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