History 1401E Lecture : 8.The French Revolution.doc
22 Mar 2012
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The estates general: first estate 303 delegates mostly drawn from the lower clergy, second estate 282 delegates mostly from the higher nobility, third estate 646 delegates predominantly lawyers, doctors etc. Deadlock: third estate refused to meet unless joined by the other two estates. 17 june 1789 third estate declared itself the national assembly. 19 june 1789 first estate voted to join the third estate. 23 june 1789 louis xvi backed down and ordered the estates to meet together. Storming of the bastille: parisains riot after rumours of a plot to crush the third estate, stormed bastille prison 14 july 1789. The revolution spreads: la grande peur (the great fear) 19th july-3aug 1789, peasant attacks on noble privilege, august decrees feudalism is abolished. Declaration of the rights of man and citizen 26 aug 1789 all men are born free and equal in rights liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression: sovereign power vested in the nation.
