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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.
âAfter a six-week deadlock, the third estate proclaimed itself a National Assembly with sole power to legislate taxation.â âAnd still, all major branches of the French government outside the Third Estate rejected these reforms.â âThe barriers between the privileged sections of the Third Estate and the nobility were especially problematical.â âFrom the initial meeting in May until the July seizure of the Bastille, the Third Estate, which metamorphosed into the National Assembly, sought to overcome the political advantages of the clergy and nobility.â âJune 17: The Third Estate declares itself the National Assemblyâ âThe Estates General lasted only a little over a month before the leaders of the Third Estate (the bourgeoisie, artisans, and peasantry) transformed it into a National Assembly and took political power from the monarchy.â