FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Question
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To change the taxing in France to get out of debt
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To give 3rd Estates representation
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To increase taxes on the 3rd estate
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To decrease taxes on the 2nd estate
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Detailed explanation-1: -The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. This assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1789, the King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General. It was the first meeting of the Estates General called since 1614. He called the meeting because the French government was having financial problems.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Voting in the Estates General in the past had been conducted according to the principle that each estate had one vote. But members of the third Estate demanded that each member would have one vote. 3. When the King rejected this proposal, the members of the Third Estate walked out of the assembly in protest.