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We are very low on money! How should we solve this problem?
Great Idea!!!
What!!!
We should tax the third estate.
This is not fair!!!!!
During the French empire. There were 3 estates 1st estate was the clergy, 2nd estate was nobilty and 3rd estate was the commoners. The 1st and 2nd estate were privileged from birth whereas only the third estate had to pay taxes
to long! We need a to make a new constitution!
Upon the accession of louis XVI, the new king found an empty treasury. so to meet his regular expenses he increased the taxes.
When an estates general meeting started. the first and second estates were seated in rows facing each other on two sides, while the third estate had to stand at the back.
Voting in the estates general had been conducted according to the principle that each estate had one vote, but members of third estate demanded that voting now be conducted by the assembly as a whole.
when the king rejected this proposal, The 3rd estate walked across the street and stayed in a tennis court and wrote out a new constitution called The Tennis court Oath
On July 14 1789, Bastille was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob, this prison represented royal authority in the centre of Paris.

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