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Thatromeokid Posted 15 years ago
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Meeting Of the Estates General Notes:
• An Oath signed by about 576 out of 577members.
• Joseph Martin-Dauch was the only one not to take the oath.
• Reason-they were locked out of a meeting of the Estates General on june 20 1789.
• Which was held in a tennis court.
• This became known as the National Assembly on June 17, 1789.
• Led by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti.
• Here they took an oath to meet until a constitution was written.
• Belief: Authority started with the people instead of a monarchy.
• First time the French people stood against the King for what they believed in.
• This forced to King to see to it that voting was based of the number of people and not order in society.
• This inspired future riots and protests to come and called a new constitution into action.
• This revolution started because the third estate was dissatisfied with the absolute monarchy in which the king wanted to rule with.
• They would meet to discuss the reforms prime minister, Jacques Necker, had in mind.
• These meetings included all of the Estates.
• Their meeting place was a hall called the Menus Plaisirs.
• When they arrived, they found it locked.
• They saw this as a blatant attempt of the king to put an end to their reforms.
• First Estate consisted of about 10,000
• 40,000 consisted of about 40,000
• 25,000 consisted of about 25 million
• Unlike the First and Second Estate, the Third Estate was taxed heavily.
• Since the number of representatives were unequal, the third estate demanded double reprensation.
• Their sole purpose was to change the nation’s structure instead of just their taxes.
  

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You could try to group them according to the 5Ws

Why was this needed?
Who was doing it?
When and Where was it happening?
What happened when they got there?
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Romeo Garcia

World History

1/28/11

Mrs. Rude

Meeting of the Estates General

Introduction: Third Estate: believed that authority started with the people instead of a monarchy.







Thesis: Louis XVI’s desire to maintain a monarchy government ultimate
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Somewhere in there you need to define what the third estate is.
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Ok! Anything else?

Does this look like 11th grade material?

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