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3.9- What is the Third Estate?

Revolutions

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The French People's List of Grievances

Mail tax payers 25 years or older were allowed to come to a primary assembly that would elect delegates. The other major task of these assemblies was to draw up a list of grievances called ka. These kai have become justifiably famous in the academic world, because when else does history leave for you a comprehensive accounting of a society's collective complaints and their collective dreams right on the eve of a majorre lution?

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