The National Assembly 1789. From August 1788 to May 1789 Third Estate increasingly aware of its importance An ambiguous voting system mixing progressive.

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1 The National Assembly 1789

2 From August 1788 to May 1789 Third Estate increasingly aware of its importance An ambiguous voting system mixing progressive changes and traditional rules What the Third Estate demands: deliberation in common and voting by head What they get: doubling of their deputies but vote by order

3 Publication in January 1789 of Sieyès pamphlet Quest-ce que le Tiers Etat? Le plan de cet écrit est assez simple. Nous avons trois questions à nous faire. 1° Quest-ce que le Tiers état? TOUT. 2° Qua-t-il été jusquà présent dans lordre politique? RIEN. 3° Que demande-t-il? À ÊTRE QUELQUE CHOSE. On va voir si les réponses sont justes. Jusque-là, ce serait à tort quon taxerait dexagération des vérités dont on na pas encore vu les preuves. Nous examinerons ensuite les moyens que lon a essayés, et ceux que lon doit prendre, afin que le Tiers état devienne, en effet, quelque chose. Ainsi nous dirons : 4° Ce que les ministres ont tenté, et ce que les privilégiés eux- mêmes proposent en sa faveur. 5° Ce quon aurait dû faire. 6° Enfin, ce qui reste à faire au Tiers pour prendre la place qui lui est due.

4 The actual meeting Old ceremonial form maintained Disappointing speeches Voting procedure not mentioned After a year of expectation, a sense of deflation

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7 The Third Estate refuses to act whilst separate from the 2 other orders 17 June 1789: National Assembly 20 June: Tennis Court Oath 23 June: decisions of the Assembly declared null and void, Estates ordered to separate 27 June: Louis backs down, National Constituent Assembly

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15 In Paris 26 June & 1 July: troops surrounding Paris and Versailles Necker dismissed Electors set themselves up as an unofficial municipal authority and create a militia Search for gunpowder 15 July: Louis XVI capitulates 16 July: triumphant welcome in Paris

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19 In the countryside Rumours spread in the provinces Grande Peur Rumours of aristocrats paying brigands to steal crops Peasants attack castles and destroy manorial rolls

20 In the National Assembly 4 August 1789: feudalism swept away 26 August: Declaration of the rights of man 1 October: King calls his Flanders regiment for protection, feast causes outrage 5 October: Women march on Versailles and bring back the king to Paris 6 October: king sanctions the rights of man

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