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After assessing the situation, Necker insisted that Louis XVI call together the Estates-General, a French congress that originated in the medieval period and consisted of three estates. The First Estate was the clergy, the Second Estate the nobility, and the Third Estate effectively the rest of French society.
The National Assembly. On June 17, emboldened by the joining of some of the nobility and the clergy, the Third Estate declared itself the National Assembly of France, imploring the remainder of the Estates-General to join the Assembly but also vowing to do the business of France with or without them.his is because the National Assembly was supported by large mobs of Parisians popularly called the sans-culottes-literally meaning those without pants. The sans-culottes were largely the working poor of the city, upset at skyrocketing food prices and the opulence and frivolity of their rulers.