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__CAUSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:__ __3 ESTATES__
 * During the French Revolution, the **National Convention** or **Convention**, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly which sat from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 (the 4th of Brumaire of the year IV under the French Republican Calendar adopted by the Convention). It held executive power in France during the first years of the French First Republic. It was succeeded by the Directory, commencing 2 November 1795. Prominent members of the original Convention included Maximilien Robespierre of the Jacobin Club, Jean-Paul Marat (affiliated with the Jacobins, though never a formal member), and Georges Danton of the Cordeliers. From 1793 to 1794, executive power was de facto exercised by the Convention's Committee of Public Safety.
 * The cause of the French Revolution was because King Louis XVI didn't do his part as a king.
 * It wasn't just the tax on products like bread and salt but also it was the fact that he was going to run away from the war that was occuring, he was a coward, yet he had the guts to veto some proposals in 1791 he had no other choice and wasn't as powerful. he wasn't fair and made all peasants pay more taxes, this made them more poor than they already were and it made the peasants create a group (Member of National Assembly) the Commoner.
 *  [[image:execution_of_Louis_XVI.jpg width="263" height="262" caption="execution_of_Louis_XVI.jpg"]]


 * 1st Estate: The Roman catholic churcc, clergy formed this Estate. 10% of the land in France, provided education for the poor and contributed 2% of it's income tax.
 * 2nd Estate: Rich nobles 2% of population and owned 20% of land.Paid NO TAXES!
 * 3rd Estate: the rest of the (peasants) 80% OUT OF 26 million people in France. Paid 1/2 their income to nobles, tithes to the church, and taxes tot he king's agents. they were ussualy heavily taxed.

__KING AND QUEEN:__
 * 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793
 * King: King Louis XVI
 * QUEEN:Queen Marie Antoinett- She was a woman who was not liked by the french. They didnt like her because she was spending and because she had been involved with controversialcourt affairs.