Financial Crisis in France

To solve the financial crisis in France, Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General, which had not met since 1614. The Estates General was made up of representatives from all three Estates: the First Estate or clergy, the Second Estate or nobility, and the Third Estate, which represented everyone else. Representatives of the Third Estate left the meeting because all vote, thus the when the First and Second Estate voted together they would always out vote the Third Estate, 2 to 1. The meeting of the Estates General represented a step towards democracy because the king was forced to call a meeting of all representatives of French society.

In September the Constitution of 1791 was completed. The national Assembly is an elected legislature in various countries. Unfortunately the people couldn’t go in because there was no more room. If they went in the king’s guard will kill the people. They went to some tennis courts, because it was the biggest room they can find to put everyone in. The people did an Oath. The Oath was “We promise never to adjourn until France has the constitution”. The meeting was formed because the king’s guard didn’t let the people in the conference.

On the morning of July 14, 1789 during the French revolution, some craftsmen and salesman decided to fight back and run to invalids to seal weapons. The group of craftsmen and salesmen had stolen more than 10,000 rifles, but they didn’t find the gunpowder. Somehow the mob knew that the pile of powder was stocked in the Bastille, a prison they was a symbol of the King’s about and arbitrary power. They divided to attack it. At 4pm, the Marquis de Launay surrendered and let the people enter the Bastille. The craftsmen and salesmen fought back because they thought it was the right thing.

The Women March on Versailles, also known as The October March, which was in the market places of Paris in the morning, were nearly over the high price and scarcity of bread. The market women and their various allies grew into a mob of thousands. The crowd surrounded the palace at Versailles. King Louis