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During the French Revolution, each estate was treated very differently. The nobles were in the 2nd estate meaning they have a very high amount of authority. Not as must as the clergy did though. Then in the 3rd estate, was everyone else. They had no authority at all. Follow Theo the noble and Louis the farmer, throughout all of the French revolution. King Louis XIV of France from 1643 to 1715. He was killed and was not seen as a good king. Louis is important because he was the last king to rule France before the monarchy was established. People didn’t like him because he heavily taxed the people in the 3rd estate because he went on spending sprees. He greatly increased the national debt in France.

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Conditions in France in the late 1780s (3rd Estate) 

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Conditions in France in the late 1780s (3rd Estate) 

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During the French Revolution the population was rapidly growing. France was also going through a very cold and rough winter. Louis, who was in the 3rd estate, was barely hanging on. He was working for a noble called Theo. Theo paid Louis very little. Just enough to pay for his home and for him to be fed just a little. Louis hates working for Theo but he knows that the only way for him to stay alive is to continue working for him. Louis is not able to pay for heat therefore he is constantly sick and cold. The cold is also preventing Louis from growing his crops. The cold freezes the ground and the crops die. When he can't grow crops he gets paid less and less. Louis is struggling a lot to get through life.

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Conditions in France in the late 1780s (Nobles)

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Conditions in France in the late 1780s (Nobles)

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In France during the late 1780s, the population was growing rapidly. As well as France going through a very rough and cold winter. Theo, lived in the palace and had no worries. He was always warm and fed. Theo relied a lot on his farmer and worker Louis. Theo did pay Louis very little, but it got him through life. Louis had no choice but to work for him because without him he would die.

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The meeting of Estates General (3rd estate)

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The meeting of Estates General (3rd estate)

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On May 5th 1789, King Louis XIV held a meeting called the Estates General. The meeting was called because the French Government was having financial problems. Each estate had one vote during the meeting. This had been unfair to people like Louis because the third estate had made up 97% of the population while they had the same value of votes as the first and second estate which was significantly smaller. People like Louis who had been a part of the large third estate had almost never won any debate because the first and second estate would always vote together since they were the two higher social classes. Louis and his fellow members of the third estate had proposed an idea that each delegate be given a single vote, this meant that the third estate had an opportunity to win a decision. The king had rejected this proposal and left the unfair voting system the way it was.

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The meeting of the Estates General (Nobles)

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The meeting of the Estates General (Nobles)

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The Meeting of the Estates General was held on May 5'th 1789 by King Louis in order to establish a solution to the poor political and financial state of France. The First and Second Estates had a significantly lower population compared to the number of people in the Third Estate. As the Third Estate continuously demanded for equal voting and constitutional rights, the Higher Estates including Louis with the same amount of votes would over power and disagree in order to maintain a upper class supremacy.

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The Tennis Court Oath and the creation of the National Assembly (3rd Estate)

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The Tennis Court Oath and the creation of the National Assembly (3rd Estate)

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This was the act of defiance of the third estate. The first and second estates would continuously outvote the third estate causing the thirds estate to have little say in government. The Tennis Court Oath is what laid the groundwork for the Declaration of Rights of Man and of Citizen, and the Storming of the Bastille. Louis was very angry. He was angry with everyone in the 1st and 2nd estates. He knew that he needed them to be alive but he knew that without them he'd be able to live. Louis knew that he needed to be stubborn and there needed to be a change in the way that they were living. That was when the 1st and 2nd estate gave in and created the Declaration of Rights of Man.

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The Tennis Court Oath and the creation of the National Assembly (Nobles)

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The Tennis Court Oath and the creation of the National Assembly (Nobles)

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This was the act of defiance of the third estate. The first and second estates would continuously outvote the third estate causing the thirds estate to have little say in government. The Tennis Court Oath is what laid the groundwork for the Declaration of Rights of Man and of Citizen, and the Storming of the Bastille. Theo the noble was not worried during this time. He knew that the 3rd estate was very upset with their treatment, but he knew that the 1st and 2nd estate would win their argument every time. Theo saw that the 3rd estate was being defiant, but in his head he just kept telling himself that without him they all would be dead or starving.

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The Storming of the Bastille (3rd estate)

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The Storming of the Bastille (3rd estate)

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The Storming of the Bastille took place in Paris of July 14, 1789.  Many shop owners, craftsmen, and other Third estate members had participated in the attack. Louis as well as other members of the lower class had been very upset about their involvement and say in government. They wanted to help make decisions and make life in France fair for everyone. King Louis had refused to give the third estate the same advantages as the first and second estates. The french commoners had taken over the Hotel des Invalides in order to acquire muskets for protection. The Bastille had contained the gunpowder they needed, when Louis and others demanded that Governor de Launay give away the gunpowder and surrender the Bastille he refused. Louis and his fellow commonsers were outraged and decided to storm the courthouse and eventually break into the main fortress. The soldiers of the Bastille were very scared and decided to fire into the crowd of commoners. The battle had ended with about 100 commoners killed...one of them being Louis's brother Lyam.

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It had been early May of 1789, Theo and his fellow nobles had been walking the streets of Paris, when they saw a large group of 3rd estate members marching toward the beloved Bastille, the centre of Paris. The group of people had been armed with muskets. As Theo followed the group to the Bastille, he noticed that they had been demanding gun powder from the military leader of the Bastille, Governor de Launay. He refused several times and ordered the people to leave. Louis, watching the commoners get closer and closer to the main fortress, heard loud gun shots. The crowd of people had merged into one large violent clash. The people of the third estate had beheaded Governor de Launay, put his head on a spike, and paraded it around the city of Paris. Theo as well as other higher class French people had grown concerned for France and what it could turn into after this horrible event.

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This was well before the beginning of the revolution. The Great Fear was a time period of rioting on the countryside by the 3rd estate. Many tried to push the nobles and the clergy out of power. This riot is what lead to the Declaration of Rights of Man. Louis was very involved in the rioting. He loved the idea of kicking the nobles and the clergy out of power. Their main goal was to completely overthrow the clergy but they weren't really sure how to accomplish that. One of the biggest riots during the Great Fear was the storming of the Bastille. Louis helped everyone destroy the Bastille by hand, ripping bricks out and throwing them.

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This was well before the beginning of the revolution. The Great Fear was a time period of rioting on the countryside by the 3rd estate. Many tried to push the nobles and the clergy out of power. This riot is what lead to the Declaration of Rights of Man. Still even during the riots, Theo was not worried. He stood his ground and wouldn't let the 3rd estate walk all over him. Luckily he wasn't near the Bastille when it was stormed but by this time he knew they were mad. He knew at some point he was going to have to make a compromise but he also knew that that compromise wasn't coming anytime soon.

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Declaration of the Rights to Man (3rd Estate)

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Declaration of the Rights to Man (3rd Estate)

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man was finalized on August 27, 1789.  The idea had been put into effect so that 3rd estate members such as Louis had the same rights as the 2nd and 1st estate members. The new slogan included liberty, equality, and brotherhood. This gave power to the larger group of the common people. The rights included freedom of speech, assembly, religion, and freedom from arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. This was good news for Louis and other commoners because they were equal constitutionally.

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Declaration of the Rights to Man (Nobles)

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Declaration of the Rights to Man (Nobles)

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In August of 1789, the National Assembly passed The Declaration of the Rights of Man. This new government with King Louis XIV allowed the lowerclassmen and 3rd estate members to have the same constitutional equality as 1st and 2nd estate members like Theo. This was frustrating to some upperclassmen including Theo because they didn't think that the 3rd estate should have the same rights if they didn't have the same social class.

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The Women's March on Versailles (3 Estates)

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The Women's March on Versailles (3 Estates)

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A march in which many lower class, hungry women stormed Versallies. They were planning to capture Louis and Marie Antoinette. This was a turning point in the revolution, it showed that the power was with the people and not with the higher estates. This also exploited the corruption from Louis and Antoinette. Theo wasn't a women so he couldn't really participate in the March but he had a wife that knew she had the power to participate. Her name was Celine. Celine and all of the other poor women, ransacked the town for weapons so that they could try and capture Marie and Louis. They ended up staying there all night. Early the next morning they were able to get into the palace. They killed some of the guards. Louis and Marie fled. Soon later they were both charged with treason and beheaded soon there after.

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The Women's March on Versailles (Nobles)

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The Women's March on Versailles (Nobles)

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A march in which many lower class, hungry women stormed Versallies. They were planning to capture Louis and Marie Antoinette. This was a turning point in the revolution, it showed that the power was with the people and not with the higher estates. This also exploited the corruption from Louis and Antoinette. Theo was now a very worried man. He lived in the Palace of Versailles and the angry pack of women were headed straight towards him. He knew that he wasn't their target but being in the same building that they were storming didn't make him feel great. The guards were protecting him, but the next morning the women made their way into the palace and killed his guards. As soon as they made their way in, Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette fled. Theo thought to himself, "Traders."

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The Monarchy is Abolished and Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (3rd Estate)

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The Monarchy is Abolished and Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (3rd Estate)

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A major cause of the revolution was the massive food shortage and economic crisis. This angered many commoners like Louis because the war was being fought so that France would grow economically and gain money so that people had access to food and resources affordably everyday. Due to the inhuman acts of King Louis XIV and Mary-Antoinette, they grew scared of what the people of France would do to them. The King and Queen had fled to Austria which then led them to their conviction of treason. The King and Queen were deservedly executed.

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The Monarchy is Abolished and Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (Nobles)

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The Monarchy is Abolished and Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (Nobles)

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The Monarchy after the war that promised France's successful future had brought great disappointment to upperclassmen like Theo, but it hadn't harmed them as much as it had affected the Third Estate. Even though the war resulted in a great food shortage, the first and second estates could still afford the extreme prices due to their high social class. The death of the King and Queen had been a giant shock to the First and Second estates. It left Theo and others worried for the changes that might be made in the future and whether their social class advantages would still be in effect with a new ruler.

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Robespierre and the Reign of Terror (3rd Estate)

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Robespierre and the Reign of Terror (3rd Estate)

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The Reign of Terror was a period of time in which there was a lot of state sanctioned violence. This caused many executions, and mass killings of people. This stopped other countries from coming into France, which kept the French Revolution going. Maxmilien Robespierre was a radical democrat who was a key figure in the revolution. He is the man who created the Reign of Terror. He created the committee of public safety which tried to show the difference between those who were for and those who were against the revolution. During the Revolution, Louis was very afraid of all of the mass killings that were going on. He wasn't completely sure what the reason for all of the violence was, but he knew that it wasn't good. He spent a good chunk of his life living in fear that he would get randomly selected for an execution or get caught up in the wrong crowd and end up dying.

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Robespierre and the Reign of Terror (Nobles)

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Robespierre and the Reign of Terror (Nobles)

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The Reign of Terror was a period of time in which there was a lot of state sanctioned violence. This caused many executions, and mass killings of people. This stopped other countries from coming into France, which kept the French Revolution going. Maxmilien Robespierre was a radical democrat who was a key figure in the revolution. He is the man who created the Reign of Terror. He created the committee of public safety which tried to show the difference between those who were for and those who were against the revolution. Theo knew that by helping to create all of these mass killings and executions, it would prevent people from other countries from entering. Theo did not appreciate the constant migration of people throughout his country so he wasn't going to do anything to stop the violence.

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Napoleon's determination to save France was incredibly admired by Louis and other Third Estate members. Napoleon increased and fixed the economy of France and gave members such as underclassmen and business owners who had been suffering after the war the opportunity to regain strength and equality socially which they had once lost after the revolution.

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The people of France had been interested in Napoleons dedication when they first noticed his military leadership in his defeat of the British navy. Theo and others had known that they wanted a leader like this ruling their country. Napoleon was given command of the French army in Italy. He had noticed that the army was left unorganized and unsuccessful since the revolution had ended. His goal was to create a strong military and later fix the other problems that had been left for him. The First and Second estate members were proud of the successful growth that Napoleon had assisted France in.

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In the end, a constitutional monarchy was created. The estates general became abolished and turned into the National Assembly. This prevented any biased opinions and caused most people to be treated "better." Theo continued on throughout his noble livelyhood and Louis become well paid and is now able to feed his family. They all lived happily ever after... well for now at least.

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