By Aimee Andrews, Sharna Armstrong, Emma By Aimee Andrews, Sharna Armstrong, Emma Davison, Rose Mckean and Emma ShuttleworthDavison, Rose Mckean and Emma Shuttleworth

Louie the sixteenth and Marie Antoinette

Louie the sixteenth and Marie Antoinette where a

pampered king and queen.

He and His Wife had many Expensive clothes (and paintings)

The palace often held 27 course meals for friends and relatives

And finally…

he had an absolutely massive chateaux (Versailles) with 700 rooms and a garden

over 2000 acres

What more could you want in a king?

Well…

The peasants

While the king is having parties and baths in strawberries all the peasants are suffering of starvation.

The crops have failed for two years and the country is deep in debt.

Plus all of the peasants have no money to pay taxes (which the rich nobles who have money do not pay).

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The National assemblyThe national assembly was a large group of people that

controlled France (like our parliament). It was made up of members from each estate of France.

The first estate (the clergy)The second estate (the nobility)The third estate (every one else)

The Estates-General

since the country was falling apart, Louis XVI organised a meeting of the three estates to discuss the financial crisis of France; this

meeting was called the Estates-General.

However, the third estate disagreed with what the first and second estate wanted, therefore were

locked out of the meeting room so they couldn’t have their say in

events.

The tennis court oaththe third estate instead formed their own meeting in the tennis courts of Versailles, calling themselves the National Assembly. They made the tennis court oath, one of the most well known events in French

history.

“Not to separate, and to reassemble wherever

circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom

is established".

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