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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.
Once the Third Estate split from the Estates General and declared itself the National Assembly in June 1789, the king tried to fight back, and it was the Parisian poor and the provincial peasants that saved this middle-class/enlightened aristocrats led revolution from doom.