The three estates were Clergy, Nobles, and Peasants. The third estate (Peasants) felt used because they did all the work for their country but had to pay most of the taxis while the Nobles payed nearly nothing and the Clergy payed nearly nothing at all. When the Peasants of France heard of what the enlightenment thinkers were doing, they admired it greatly and wished for the same type of government, where all was equal and the people controlled their own government. Everything from how much King Louis XVI taxed the peasants to the way the Old Regime was laid out triggered the French Revolution, but there was no direct cause. France celebrates July,14 1789 the same way we celebrate ours on the 4th of July
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