PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Human rights
The basic rights given to all people
Tyranny
The unjust treatment of power.
King Louis Louis XVI was King of France from 1774 until 1791, after which he was subsequently King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition and execution.
Queen Marie Marie Antoinette, born an Archduchess of Austria, was Queen of France from 1774 to 1792.
She was also executed
Estates
First Estate was the Roman Catholic clergy, who owned fifteen percent of the land and made up one percent of the population. The Second
Estate, the nobility, made up two percent of the population and owned up to twenty-five percent of the land. The Third Estate was the rest of the population, with the bourgeoisie, or middle class, at the top.
Estate general
French legislative body made up of representatives from each estate.
