They were praying for a piece of bread.
The Enlightenment was the time were logic, thinking on your own, reasons, what you want to believe, not only the Pope telling you what to believe in. Many philosophers started to write their ideas that influence The French Revolution. Now days you are born with natural rights, but during The French Revolution as soon as you were born they took all your rights. The Printing Press was really helpful to transmit the knowledge to poor people so that their ideas could spread to everyone. This way the Revolution got bigger and was all over the place.
The fifth cause was the influence of other revolutions. A revolution that really inspired the third estate was the American Revolution. This Revolution transmitted an idea of, if the americans could overcome England, that was the most powerful place in the world, why we cannot overcome our government and be free of this oppressing …show more content…
It was a really important moment in the first day in the French Revolution. In 1789 King Louis XVI felt the pressured estate, so he created the grand meeting called the Estate General. However for some thing to confirmed two estates had to agree, so the two first estates did not want to pay taxes and the third estate wanted them to pay taxes. Unfortunately, for the third estate, they continue to pay taxes. But the third estate did not like the idea so they said they would be the National Assembly. Because of that occurrence the king started to arrest people that was against him. After the people came and destroyed the Bastille, the prison, to get more people, although only had seven people, and more weapons.
The second stage was the Great Fear. The third estate could not even afford bread so they started to kill nobles and burn down castles. Putting fear in the upper classes. Other countries were afraid to be the next to have a revolution, so they started to help the French king, because they loved the system of Absolute Monarchism. So the National Assembly started to attack all the helpers of the king throughout Europe. They eliminated the Monarchism in France, more social equality, houses burned down, and the declaration of man and citizens, right of