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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.
Main article: Estates-General of 1789. Estates-General had been called on May 5, 1789 to deal with France 's financial crisis, but promptly fell to squabbling over its own structure.he Third Estate had been granted double representationâthat is, twice as many delegates as each of the other estatesâbut at the opening session on May 5, 1789 they were informed that all voting would be by power not by head, so their double representation was to be meaningless in terms of power.