MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Reform was taking too long because Louis was grieving the death of his first born son.
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The First and Second Estates were unwilling to give up their privileges.
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Clergy from the First Estate and ‘enlightened’ nobles began defecting over to the Third Estate.
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The voting system was unfair as the First and Second Estates, who only represented 2% of the population, could always outvote the Third which constituted 98% of the population.
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Detailed explanation-1: -King Louis XVI, aware of the injustices of the French tax policy, tried to reform the tax code to make it more fair, but was repeatedly thwarted by the overrepresented nobles and clergy. This angered the Third Estate, which refused to vote in the Estates General, and formed instead the National Assembly.
Detailed explanation-2: -After this declaration, the First and Second Estate locked the National Assembly-the members of the Third Estate-out of the Estates General meeting hall due to the defiance of the norms of the Estate General Meeting.
Detailed explanation-3: -"The reason for their walkout is members were forced to stand by the king and didn’t affirm their voting pattern. Two steps took by the members of the third estate: Members demanded the constitution to limit the power of the king. To fight for their rights, they decided to break the Bastille prison.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Third Estate wanted the estates to meet as one body and for each delegate to have one vote. The other two estates, while having their own grievances against royal absolutism, believed – correctly, as history was to prove – that they stood to lose more power to the Third Estate than they stood to gain from the King.