MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Estates General
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National Assembly
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Three Estates
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the French Revolution, the National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale ), which existed from 17 June 1789 to 29 September 1791, was a revolutionary assembly of the Kingdom of France formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (commoners) of the Estates-General.
Detailed explanation-2: -Summary. On June 17, 1789, the members of Third Estate (those members of the pre-revolutionary French parliament, the Estates-General, who were not from the First Estate, the nobility, or the Second Estate, the clergy) gathered and declared themselves the National Assembly of France.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1789, in a desperate attempt to address France’s economic crisis, Louis XVI assembled the Estates-General, a national assembly that represented the three “estates” of the French people–the nobles, the clergy, and the commons.