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worst king and queen of france?-
Mary Antoinette and King LouisXVI, Mary was capricious and very irresponsible, she spent an large amount of money on clothes. she bought dresses nearly everyday, she was very unpopular and had very few friends. King Louis was clumsy had a good heart but not to a personal level and was awkward, he seemed to be gruff and probably didn't like being king of France. -
BAD HARVEST!!!!!-
made food prices EXTREMELY high which brought the peasants and city-dwellers to starvation -
Period: to
French Revo
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meeting of the 3 estates
they marched in the halls of Versailles, the Clergy wore Regalia, Nobles wore their most finery clothes, and the Bourgeoisie wore all black, the 3rd had requested a majority vote(since there was more of them then all) but the king had refused it so the 3rd estate refused to budget in return -
Tennis court oath
the king thought if he cancelled the meeting at Versailles they wouldn't find another place but they moved to tennis court and they pledged not to leave until France had a new constitution -
The 3 Groups-
The 1, 2 and 3 estates consists of-
1. Clergy
2. Nobility
3. Bourgeoisie -
1 Estate(Clergy)-
consists of the rich and poor, the members of aristocracy lived in wealth church lands, the perish priest lived exactly like begging peasants -
2nd Estate(Nobility)
inherited their wealth and noble titles from the land, some nobles had very little money but a lot of privileges as a noble some even enjoyed having both wealth and privilege -
Legislative Assembly-
sadly the constution and gov of the legislative assembly only lasted 1 years, was dissolved and a national convention was conveyed by a more radical. -
3rd Estate(bourgeoisie)-
by far the largest group of people of the 3 estates, anyone who wasn't a member of the first 2 estates was one of the 3rd, including wealth merchants who even rivaled the nobles, doctors, lawyers, shopkeepers, urban poors and the peasants who worked on the lands of the diverse group -
2 great powers?-
In Austria, Prussia, and Europe are afraid of the spread of the Democrats, they declared war on France to restore the Monarchy
