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**France Before the revolution Note #3 pg 19-23**  toc

Voting system
-king met Estates General whenever he wants, but they didn’t meet very often -Estates General was made up of 750 members.(250 from each 3 estates) -3rd estates complained that the voting system -voting system: each estates met in separate rooms and each estates had only one vote -3rd estates asked king to double the member of 3rd estate and give each member one vote -at first king did not accept it but when government was close to bankrupt, and new finance minister, Jacques Necker advise king to do what 3rd estate wants to do, king agree to do it

The food crisis
-not only finance problem but food crisis also caused problem -it was caused by hailstorm in 1788. (it destroyed cornfield, vegetable plots, orchards and vineyards). Also, after this weather became extremely cold, so rivers froze and it stopped watermills (blocked road and foods couldn’t go to markets) -result of this awful weathers, price of the bread rise. Then, people stopped buy clothes, candles and fuel, so people in this kinds of factory lost job and unemployment rise. -riots and strikes occurred

The complaints lists
-In spring1789, election for the Estates General was held -There were over 60,000 of ‘lists of complaints’ that members want Estates General to discuss with king -May 1789, Estates General came to Versailles -people became vey excited about this and thought that king will take action to solve these problems. (list of complains)

The estates meet
-1st meeting->5 May 1789 met at largest hall in versailes -After king’s speech, three estates were told to split up and carry on meeting in different halls. However, 3rd estate disagree with this and wanted nobles and clergy to join them in ‘National Assembly’. -Nobles and clergy disagree with this -So 3rd estate said that if nobles and clergy choose to not joint them, they will work Estate general by themselves -3rd estates refuse to work for king and king Louis start to lose control -19 June, clergy decide to join 3rd estate. But when they find out that hall was locked for king’s Royal session.

(1st meeting of the Estate General) picture from textbook

The tennis court Oath
-this made members angry -they moved to tennis court and carry on meeting -when king ordered them to meet in separate estates, they refuse to move -on 27 June, king ordered nobles and clergy to join 3rd estate in ‘National Assembly’

Fun!
1.
 * || Things that people disliked || kinds of people who disliked these things ||
 * society || society was separate into three estates.(clergy, nobles and others). Only clergy and nobles had privileges || 3rd estates ||
 * taxation || Noble and clergy had privilege on taxation, but 3rd estates had no privilege, so they were suffering from unfair taxation. Also, there were so much taxes for everything. || 3rd estates ||
 * feudal rights and dues || To use oven and hunt, people had to pay fees, so 3rd estate had to pay lot of money for so many things. || 3rd estates ||
 * Law || Law base based on Catholic, so it was not fair for people who were not Catholic || people who were not catholic and educated people ||
 * Government || Marie Antoinette was wasting money on silly things. Such as making fake villages and clothes. Also, government tried to solve financial problem by rise taxes that was caused by them. || everyone ||

2. One of the reason why people wanted to change the way France was run is because governments were using so much money for their benefits. Marie Antoinette was wasting money on decorate her castle that king Louis gave to her and she used so much money on clothe and jewelry, while 3rd estates were suffering from hunger. Also, when government was close to bankrupt because of them, they tried to solve it by rise taxes. This caused all estates to get mad at government. Another reason was that only nobles and clergy had privilege. Because of taxation and feudal rights, 3rd estates had to pay so much money. However, government did not do anything to solve this problem, so price of the bread rise and people had to live more difficult life.

Question: -Why did king changed his mind? -what happened during food crisis?

Summary: This chapter talks about France's voting system and some problems that made people's life difficult. Voting system worked by three groups of estates (Estates General was made up of 750 members) and during vote, each estates met in separate room and each estates had only one vote. This was one of reasons why 3rd estates did not like voting system. When they did voting for new taxes, it was obvious that it could be outvoted by clergy and nobility, so they refuse to vote in this way and said that they wanted clergy and nobles to join in a single 'National Assembly', but clergy and nobles refuse to do it. Then, 3rd estates refuse to work and finally king ordered clergy and nobles to join 3rd estate. Financial problem was one of fact that made people's life difficult. But another facts that affected people's life was hailstorm on 13 July 1788. Result of hailstorm, lot of vegetables and cornfields were destroyed. Also, after this, extremely cold weather caused river frozen and it stopped food from reach market. Which caused price of bread to rise.