He convened the Estates-General, made up of the Roman Catholic clergy (the First Estate) the nobility ... upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French ... Estate), the nobility (the Second Estate) and the common people (the Third ...

Our government looks eerily similar to the French Monarchy of the late 18th ... Most of France belonged to the Third Estate (the commoners), which did not feel their government represented them.

Merchants and manufacturers, the third estate included professions such ... Question 3: Describe the legacy of the French Revolution for the peoples of the world during the nineteenth and ...