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In Versailles, France, the deputies of the Third Estate, which representcommoners and the lower clergy, meet on the Jeu de Paume, an indoortennis court, in defiance of King Louis XVI’s order to disperse. Inthese modest surroundings, they took the historic Tennis Court Oath,with which they agreed not to disband until a new French constitutionhad been adopted.Louis XVI, who ascended the French throne in 1774, proved unsuited todeal with the severe financial problems he had inherited from hisgrandfather, King Louis XV. In 1789, in a desperate attempt to addressFrance’s economic crisis, Louis XVI assembled the Estates-General, anational assembly that represented the three “estatesö of the Frenchpeople–the nobles, the clergy, and the commons. The Estates-General hadnot been assembled since 1614, and its deputies drew up long lists ofgrievances and called for sweeping political and social reforms.The Third Estate, which had the most representatives, declared itselfthe National Assembly and took an oath to force a new constitution onthe king. Initially seeming to yield, Louis legalized the NationalAssembly under the Third Estate but then surrounded Versailles withtroops and dismissed Jacques Necker, a popular minister of state who hadsupported reforms. In response, Parisians mobilized and on July 14stormed the Bastille–a state prison where they believed ammunition wasstored–and the French Revolution began.
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