The French Revolution was the result of the unhappiness of the French majority with their government of that time. One of the main reasons for their unhappiness was the legal division among the social groups that had been ongoing for several centuries. The French were divided into three estates, religious leaders or clergy making up the first estate, nobles in the second, and the peasants and commoners the last estate. An important part of the third estate was the large, wealthy middle class that included traders, government official

The French government had run up a high debt due to fighting in the Seven Years' War and in the American Revolution. The parliament in Paris forced the French king, King Louis XVI to call a meeting of the Estates (generaly, made up of representatives of the respective estates, in order to borrow more money). King Louis XVI called the meeting, and mistakenly, started the French Revolution.

During that period of time, their king, under an absolute monarchy and by divine right, governed France where the right to rule was thought to have come from God. In the 18th century, French writers began questioning this right and raising radical ideas about freedom and human rights. One particular idea that inspired the French revolution was the suggestion that the right to govern the country came from the people.

The meeting of the Estates started at the Versailles palace. Members of the first two estates agreed on having each of the three estates take up matters and vote on them separately. However, the third estate, which had the same number of repre

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