3.3 The Third Estate

Question 1

The Pamphlet War

Answer 1

• Started after Louis XVI relaxed censorship laws to allow for ‘all erudite and educated people’ to send through opinions
• Allowed for radicalists to voice their ideas
• People became more informed of issues and were influenced by works of the Enlightenment such as Rousseau, Voltaire and others

Question 2

Adcock

Answer 2

one of the strongest short-term influences on public opinion before the revolution

Question 3

Significance of pamphlet war

Answer 3

Over 4000 pamphlets published

Question 4

Judy Anderson

Answer 4

Sieyes’ pamphlet “became the most powerful and influential attack on the social and political order of France”

Question 5

Cahiers de Doleances

Answer 5

Started in Spring 1789
Around 40,000 were created

Question 6

David Andress

Answer 6

the expression of France from below… in purely social terms