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The estates were made up of 3 Social Classes. The first estate was made up of the clergy the second estate was made up of the nobility and the third estate was made up of most of the population.

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The clergy was the first estate of the estates. The clergy was very wealthy and they provided some social services to the people. Places such as churches criticized the idleness of some clergy.

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The nobility was the Second estate of the estates. The nobility were people who served the king with rights that only the king had given them.

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The third estate was the most diverse social class. They were at the top of the bourgeoisie (middle class). The bourgeoisie had bankers, merchants, manufactures, lawyers, doctors, journalists, and professors, but most of the estate consisted of peasants.

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When Louis XVI called the Estates General he made them prepare cahiers (notebooks), listing their grievances (wrongs).

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The members of the French Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established".

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Declaration of the Rights of man and of the Citizen and National Assembly

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Declaration of the Rights of man and of the Citizen and National Assembly

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Assembly (formed by the Third Estate) in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. It also explained the sacred rights of man and it represented the whole social body.

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On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy’s dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution.

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The Bastille had fallen, and the constitutions were being drafted. But people were still starving. Women decided to do something about it and took up weaponry while marching towards the king and queen in Versailles. There they ransacked the palace where the king and queen slept, and tried to bully them. King Louis finally could do nothing about their hunger, but did agree to return back to Paris with his family.

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When he was 16 he married Marie Antoinette on May 6, 1770. As a king he was a rather weak monarch giving much power to the Estates General. He inherited a country that was already deep in debt and had his power taken away from him bit by bit and by August 1792 he was arrested and tried for treason. Then executed by guillotine January 21, 1793.

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Marie Antoinette was the Daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria. She married Louis XVI May 6, 1770. Marie was not well received by the French people and her lavish spending and incidents like the Scandal Necklace. She and her family were caught fleeing and she was guillotined 9 months after Louis.

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Maximilian Robespierre was a mainstay in the Revolution. An avid Jacobean sued that the King be executed because he betrayed the people. After the Kings death he rose quickly to power. He had created groups like the Committee of Public Safety; and thousands were killed during his time in power. He himself was finally sentenced to death and was killed by the guillotine on July 28, 1794.

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Jacques Necker was a banker of  who became a French statesman and finance minister for Louis XVI. He held the finance post during the period 1777-1781 and helped make decisions that were critical in creating political and social conditions that contributed to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.

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The Jacobins were middle class lawyers or intellectuals. They spread the republican cause through many means such as newspaper editors. Their obstacles were moderate reformers and political officials who wanted no reforms.

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In Paris and other cities , men and women, called sans-culottes pushed the revolution into more radical action. They were called sans culottes because of the clothes they wore. Many sans culottes wanted a government ruled by elected representatives instead of monarchs.

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The Reign of Terror was a dark and violent period of time during the French Revolution. Radicals took control of the revolutionary government. They arrested and executed anyone who they suspected might not be loyal to the revolution. Around 17,000 people were officially executed in France, including 2,639 in Paris. Many more died in prison or were beaten to death in the streets. Over 200,000 people were arrested.

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The guillotine was said to be a more humane way of execution introduced by Dr. Joseph Guillotin. But as the more times it was used it was seen as a Symbol of Horror instead.