The Estates General of 1789 (French: États Généraux de 1789) was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), and the commoners (Third Estate).

2015年2月1日 · The cartoon shows the Third Estate carrying the other two estates on its back. This symbolizes how the other two estates essentially lived off the work of the Third Estate and did not allow the Third Estate to have much in the way of rights.

In France under the Ancien Régime, the Estates General (French: États généraux [eta ʒeneʁo]) or States-General was a legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes (or estates) of French subjects. It had a separate assembly for each of the three estates (clergy, nobility and commoners), which were called and dismissed by the king.

estates general, 1789. French satirical cartoon of the three orders, represented as well-dressed people with horns growing out of their heads, travelling to Versailles in an ornate carriage drawn by two reindeer to begin sessions of the Estates General, May 1789.

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ESTATES GENERAL, 1789. French satirical cartoon of the three orders, represented as well-dressed people with horns growing out of their heads, travelling to Versailles in an ornate carriage drawn by two reindeer to begin sessions of the Estates General, May …

This political cartoon depicts the First and Second Estates, freed from taxation, trampling the Third Estate with a crushing load of taille, impôts and corvées. By 1787, the French monarchy was nearly bankrupt, partially due to its inability to tax the privileged orders and partially due to the excessive cost of supporting the American ...

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