Developments in Versailles

The Debate of the Vote:

• 3rd estate demanded twice as many deputies and insisited voting by head 
• Decemeber 1788 King's council agreed to double the numbers 
• 3rd estate think they have power here
• King Louis XVI is still in control

Electing the Deputies:

• government made no attempt to influecne EG and had no candidates 
• 1st estate elected parish priests to represent them
• 2nd estate mainly had old noble families
• 3rd estate were all well educated-not a single peasant
• 1st estate in control-radical and more parishes
• Louis is still in control 

Estates finally meet:

• When the EG met the government had a chance to take control of the situation
• 3rd estate were inexperienced and would have supported the king 
• 3rd estate's concerns were not settled
• No one leading

Vote by order or head?:

• Nobles rejected 3rd estate's proposals and declared…