KING AND QUEEN

• Louis XVI was the first French king in two hundred years not have to a royal mistress
• Marie Antoinette was the first queen to believe that she could be both a wife and a mistress to her husband

CLERGY

• The First estate was the clergy. The higher clergy consisted of nobles, while the lower clergy were basically commoners, and were parish priests. The clergy collected tithes, and owned about 10 percent of France’s land, for which no taxes were paid. The clergy also ran schools, kept records, and supported the poor. The higher clergy often lived in Paris and Versailles; liven extravagantly while parish priests led a hard life, living simply. It would be very reasonably to say that the lower clergy resented the higher clergy, for living better quality lives but doing much less work.

FACTS ON MARRIAGES DEATHS BIRTHS AND TAXES

• Louis XVI became the heir to the throne and the last Bourbon king of France upon his father's death in 1765. In 1770, he married Austrian archduchess Marie-Antoinette, the daughter of Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. After a slew of governing missteps, Louis XVI brought the French Revolution crashing down upon himself, and in 1793 he was executed. His wife, Marie-Antoinette, was executed nine months later he was killed.

ARE OWN LAND

• The French government developed the Estates General to show, at any given time, that they had the support of the French people. However, the way the estates were set up, ‘support of the people’ wasn’t necessarily true. There are three estates in the Estates Generals, and they all had one vote. Therefore two estates could outvote one estate, even if that estate consisted of 97% of the population.

COLLECT THE TAXES FROM RHE THIRD ESATE

INVITATION

• Date: 12/12/2019
• Time: 2:30 pm
• Location: kings Palace
• To meet and discuss for taxes and land. How do we get them.