The Estates-General is Called Flashcards
Brienne suggests that Necker is
“the only man i know who could restore the confidence of the people”
Anderson about the horrific harvests:
“Provence was described… as having been visited by the Exterminating Angel. Thousands of people froze to death, and many more died of hunger”
Harvest Crisis was in the …
Summer of 1788-89
Bread Prices soared, with
February 1789- Four pound of bread cost doubled since 1787 (15 sous)
… Parlement of Paris declares that the estates general will be constituted as it was in 1615
25th September 1788
Third Estate demands
Doubleing of their representatives, 300 to 600
King grants the doubling on…
5 December 1788
Swiss Journalist, Mallet du Pan…
“Now it is war between the Third Estate and the other two orders”
Between … and …. …. pamphlets were published
May 1788 and April 1789
Sieye, What is the Third Estate:
“What does it demand? To become something therein”
What Is the Third Estate pamphlet:
“All that is arduous is performed by the third Estate”
What is the third estate explores revolution…
“The Third Estate alone, they say, cannot constitute the Estates-General. Well! So much the better. It will form a national assembly.”
Rousseau:
“A law not made by the people is no law at all”
Nobles had … pamphlets
282 pamphlets in total, with 90 being liberal in nature
…% of nobles were willing to give up their financial privledges
89%
