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What happened (involving the Third Estate) during the meeting of the Estates General that set the French Revolution in motion? Before the French Revolution, it is important to remember that there were three estates. The first was the clergy. Then the second was the nobility, and then there was the Commoners. The meeting in question began over financial issues, France was having at the time Essentially the voting system within the estates worked like many others. All the people is one estate would vote on what they want. Then they had come to a agreement, they would present it to the leader, and the leader would present it to the other two estate leaders. However, in this meeting, the third Estate decided to not vote in the meeting, and this caused the French revolution.
How would you summarize the principles of the French Revolution in its first three years? The revolution began when the third estate decided not to partake in voting on financial status of France. The third party wanted to get rid of many of the core foundations and ideas that France were built on. The first three years if the revolution were relatively tame and stable. However in the fourth year of the revolution, The guillotine was introduced, and things became deadly and bloody very fast.