The storming of the Bastille in 1789 by Jean-Pierre Houël – WikiCommonsīy July, revolutionaries were fed up with the monarchy’s resistance to change. The storming of the Bastille Prison, July 14, 1789 Their agreement was dubbed “The Tennis Court Oath.” 3. The group agreed to stay together until they could come up with a new constitution for France. Undeterred, the National Assembly gathered on a tennis court to make a plan. When the National Assembly and the First and Second Estates butted heads over the financial crisis, King Louis XVI decided to close the hall where the National Assembly held meetings.
On May 5, 1789, the new National Assembly attempted to negotiate with the clergy and the nobility, but an agreement couldn’t be reached. In learning more about the crisis and recognizing that the two other Estates could easily place the burden of solving the crisis on the commoners through taxes, the Third Estate formed their own National Assembly. The Estates-General of 1789 was called by King Louis XVI in order to address the monarchy’s financial crisis. The Estates-General had already met several times, but due to the fact that each Estate was granted one vote, the clergy and the nobility often ganged up against the commoners, leaving them powerless. The Estates-General was an assembly that represented the three classes, or “estates” in France at the time: the clergy, or the First Estate, the nobility, or the Second Estate, and the commoners, or the Third Estate. The opening of the Estates-General May 5, 1789, in the Salle des Menus Plaisirs in Versailles by Isidore-Stanislaus Helman & Charles Monnet – WikiCommons
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