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may 5, 1789 - Louis the XVI Calls the Estates General

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First Estates- The Clergy such as; priests, monks, and bishops.
Second Estates- French Nobility (held most of the high offices in the land)
Third Estates- the rest of the population; peasants, craftspeople, and laborers

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may 5, 1789
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~ 236 years ago

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