Yet hopes were high that France’s archaic tax system could be reformed, thereby ensuring a steady stream of revenue to the crown. Many expected that the Estates-General (which represented the ...

The film recounts the events of the French Revolution through the perspective of George Ro, a lawyer from the Third Estate. He reflects on the significant changes in France from the monarchy to the ...

In 17th- and 18th-century France, the king enjoyed absolute rule. While a structure for political representation — the so-called Estates-General — existed, that body had not met since 1614.

The Tennis Court Oath in June 1789 marked the unification of the French Estates-General, who came to call ... plans to ban all legal immigration, take France out of the EU, and has ties to neo ...

Back in July of 1789, France had already experienced a rough ... Sensing distress, the king called upon the Estates-General—an assembly that hadn’t met in more than a century—to deliver ...

In times of crisis, the king could convene a representative assembly, known as the Estates-General, to help address ... 10 years of upheaval that followed, France would execute its king and ...