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By taxing the Third Estate.
It could be the Third Estate
The ordinary people of the Third Estate.
Louis XVI was not a good leader and felt it was better not to lose the favor of the two smaller Estates. He denied a request by the Third Estate to have the votes counted by the head rather than the estate. As a result, the Third Estate saw they could not reason with the king and this opened the path to revolution.
King Louis was bound to the Ancient Regime which had three Estates within the Estates General. The First Estate was the Catholic Clergy, the Second Estate was the Nobles and the Third Estate was everyone else.
He was afraid of the Third Estate because it was so big :) <<< Also, he was very easily persuaded . -- Kiera
He was afraid of the Third Estate because it was so big :) <<< Also, he was very easily persuaded . -- Kiera
He was afraid of the Third Estate because it was so big :) <<< Also, he was very easily persuaded . -- Kiera
The First Estate was the clergy, about 1% of the population. The Second Estate was the nobility, about 2% of the population. The Third Estate was everyone else, about 97% of the population. King Louis XIV, King Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette drained the French Treasury. The French gave too much financial aid to the American Colonists in their fight for independence from England. King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette spent lavishly, thinking the Third Estate would foot the bill by paying higher taxes.
For a long time, the Third Estate had been unhappy. As the Third Estate grew in numbers and became more influential, they began to resent the special privileges that the nobles had and they didn't, such as exemption from taxation. They wanted a political voice and an abolition of the feudal system, which favored the lords based on tradition, which was completely irrational to them. The turning point was when the king, Louis XVI, refused the Third Estate equal representation in the Estates General. When Louis XVI completely shut the Third Estate's representatives out of the meetings, the representatives met in a nearby tennis court and proclaimed themselves the National Assembly, taking matters into their own hands and starting the French Revolution.
The Third Estate was the estate in which the bourgeoisie belonged to.