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The meeting of the Estate General during the French Revolution 

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Explore the pivotal events surrounding the Estates General during the French Revolution, including the Tennis Court Oath and the formation of the National Assembly. This summary highlights key concepts such as the Old Regime, the role of the Third Estate, and the struggle for representation. Ideal for students studying revolutionary history.

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The meeting of the Estate General
Key terms:
Constitution
What was the Estates General
Though its clear role was never determined the Estates General
was the closest thing France had to national law making and
representative body.
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• It was made up of representatives from the three estales
When Louis XVI called the meeting of the Estates General onent
5th May 1789, it was the first time since 1614 that the body-
had met.
His predecessors had seen it as a threat to their absolute power
The meeting
Louis XVI convened the Estates General in 1788, setting the date
for May 1st 1789. Because it had been so long since they last met,
there was debate about which procedures should be followed.
The King agreed to retain many of the divisive customs which were the
norm in 1614 but intolerable to the Third Estate at a time when
the concept of equality was central to public debate. Miere
• The most controversial and significant decision remained that of the
nature of voting. If the estates voted by order the nobles and they
Clergy could together outrole the commons 2 to 1. If, on the other
hand, each delegate was to have one vote, the majority would
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Estates General were not like those of 1614. Members of the
But French Society had changed since 1614, and these
nobility were not required to stand for election to the second
Estate and many were elected to the Third Estate.
E The total number of nobles in the three Estates was about
400. Noble representatives of the Third Estate were
among the
most passionato revolutionaries, including Jean Joseph Mounier and the
Comte de Mirabeau.
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representation also uphold the traditional voting by orders.
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• The apparent intent of the King and his advisers was for everyone to
get directly to the matter of taxes, but by trying to avoid the 1
issues of representation they had gravely misjudged the situation.
• 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 would prove that they would lose more power to the
Third Estate than they stood to gain from the King.show
• Necker sympathised with the Third Estate in this matter but lacked
astuteness as a politician. He decided to let the impasse play out
to the point of stalemate before he could enter.
the
fray.
• As a result, by the time the King yielded to the demand of the thin
Estate, it seemed to be a concession wring from the mo
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rather
monarchy
than a
gift that would have convinced the populace of the King's
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• The suggestion to summon the Estates General came from the
Assembly of Notables installed by the King in February 1787. It had
not met since 1614. The usual business of registering.
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of whom
formed the Third Estate. The First and Second Estates had
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On May 5th, 1789, the Estates General convened. The following day
granting double
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as law was performed by the Parliment
In 1787, it refused to
program of badly needed financial reforma, due to the special intrests
of its noble members.
• On June 17th, with the failure of efforts to
now
reconcile the three
estates, the commune- or commone, as the Third Estate called itself
declared themselves redefined as the National Assembly, an I
Assembly not of the estates but of the people. They invited the
other orders to join them but made it clear that they intended to
conduct the nation's affairs with or without them. The King tried to
resist.
the hall where the National
On June 20th, he ordered to close
Assembly met, but deliberations moved to a
nearby tennis court, where
they proceeded to swear the Tennis Court Oath by which they's
agreed not to separate until they had seated the constitution of
France
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• Two days later, removed from the tennis court as well, the Assembly met
in the Church of Saint Louis, where the majority of the representatives
of the clergy joined them.
After a failed attempt to keep the three estates seperate, the part of
the deputies of the nobles who still stood apart joined the National
The Estates - General ceased to
at
Assembly
the
request
of the
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exist, becoming the National Assembly.
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out of Control
last was forced to act and called for a séance royale
he would propose a seals of reforms.
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(royal session) where
• On the morning of June 20th 1789, deputies in the newly us
formed National Assembly gathered to enter the
find the doors locked and guarded by royal troops.
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to
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- Interpreting this as a hostile move by King Louis XVI and his ministers,
the National Assembly proceeded to the nearest available space an S
indoor tennis court.
Here they swore an oath not to disperse until they
given France a constitution and claimed that the
King
had
no power to dissolve them.
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