WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Louis XVI called an assembly of Estates General to pass proposals for new taxes on 5th May 1789. The Estates General represented the French estates in the realm. This law was brought to an end when the Third Estate was formed and created in the National Assembly .

Detailed explanation-2: -On 4 May 1789 the last grand ceremony of the Ancien Régime was held in Versailles: the procession of the Estates General. From all over France, 1, 200 deputies had arrived for the event. The deputies of the Third Estate (the Commoners) were the greatest in number, dressed in black with a gold and black overcoat.

Detailed explanation-3: -On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du Jeu de Paume) in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Versailles palace.

Detailed explanation-4: -Estates General The Third Estate wanted greater representation and greater political power to address issues of inequality. After weeks of dissent, no agreement was reached and the meeting of the Estates-General was disbanded.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Third Estate was frustrated at the Estates General meeting in 1789 because that Estate represented the interests of the common people, and these were at odds with the interests of the elites of the First and Second Estates.