French Revolution- The Cahiers de Doleances
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When were the Cahiers de Doleances drawn up?
1789
How many cahiers were produced?
40,000
Main issues of the 3rd estate cahiers
Unproportionate taxation, seigneurialism, tithes
Main issues of the 2nd estate cahiers
Ability to reach higher offices by merit
Main issues of the 1st estate cahiers
Higher wages, limits to Louis XVI's tolerance of Protestantism
What did all estates cahiers agree on?
Estates-General or representative body should decide on taxes, constitutional reform is needed, E-G should meet regularly, hatred for lettres de cachet, freedom of the press
Issues which divided the Estates in the cahiers
How to vote in the Estates-General (vote by head or vote by estate)
What limited the representation of the 3rd estate through cahiers?
Often illiterate needed nobles or bourgeoisie to draw up their cahiers for them-- not the voice of the masses
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