Estates-General of 1789

The Committee of Thirty pressed the Estates General to adopt voting arrangements that strengthened representation of the Third Estate.

Barnave participated in the Dauphine political assembly at Vizille, which pressed for representative reform before the Estates General.

The King leaves the discussion of the weight of each vote to the Estates General itself.

Barnave was elected as a Third Estate deputy for Dauphine before the opening of the Estates General.

Lafayette was elected as a noble deputy for Riom and entered the Estates General as a supporter of reform.

Alexandre de Beauharnais was elected as a noble deputy for the bailliage of Blois to the Estates General.

Talleyrand was elected as a clergy deputy for Autun to the Estates General.

Bertrand Barere was elected to the Estates General as a Third Estate deputy for Bigorre.

Artois electors sent Robespierre to the Estates General as one of their Third Estate representatives.

The 3rd Estate meets for the 1st time since 1614. The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate. The Estates General was organized into three estates, respectively: the clergy, the nobility, and the rest of France.

Jean Sylvain Bailly was elected the leading Paris deputy of the Third Estate for the Estates General.

Olympe de Gouges asked the royal censor for permission to publish a Journal du peuple during the Estates General.

Sieyes was elected as a Paris deputy of the Third Estate to the Estates General.

Deputies from Brittany meet during the Estates General and create the political network that later develops into the Jacobin Club.

The Estates General opened the revolutionary year that produced the National Assembly, Tennis Court Oath, Bastille uprising and Declaration of Rights.

Tennis Court Oath, pledge signed by 576 out of the 577 members from the 3rd Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates General on 20 June 1789 in a tennis court.

Beauharnais was among the noble deputies who joined the Third Estate during the transformation of the Estates General.

Henri Gregoire became a deputy to the Estates General.

Elections to the Estates General produced 1,201 delegates, while cahiers de doleances recorded grievances and proposed reforms.

Elections are held in the spring of 1789; suffrage requirements for the 3rd Estate are for French-born or naturalised males only, at least 25 years of age, who resided where the vote was to take place and who paid taxes.

The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convocation of the Estates General.

The revolutionary year produced the National Assembly, Tennis Court Oath, Bastille uprising, Declaration of Rights and October march on Versailles.

Marie-Antoinette opposed the summoning of the Estates General.

Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre was appointed Member of Estates General.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord Benevente was elected to the Estates General, represents the clergy, the First Estate.