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may 5, 1789 - Estates General

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Louis XVI opens a meeting in Versailles to approve a tax plan with representatives of the 'Three Estates'. Louis announces that voting will be by estate, not by delegate giving the third estate unequal representation

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may 5, 1789
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~ 236 years ago