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Sunday: 1792
Tennis court oath good or bad? Special points of interest:
Inside this issue: Tennis Court Oath
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The Guillotine
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The National Assembly
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Letter to he Editor
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Reign of Terror
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Refusing to be held down by their King any longer, the deputies did not break up. Instead they moved their meeting to a nearby indoor tennis court. A debate quickly ensued as to how the Third Estate could protect themselves from those in positions of authority; those who wanted to destroy them. Some deputies believed that they should retreat to Paris where the people would be more likely to protect them from the King's army. Mounier warned that such a step would be blatantly revolutionary and politically dangerous. Therefore, Mounier proposed that the Third Estate adopt an oath of allegiance. The proposed oath was to read
that they would remain assembled until a constitution had been written, meeting wherever it was required and resisting pressures form the outside to disband. The proposal was a success. It was promptly written and signed by 577 members of the Third Estate. Later, the document was named the Tennis Court Oath. In 1789, in a desperate attempt to address France's economic crisis, Louis XVI assembled the Estates-General, a national assembly that represented the three "estates" of the French people—the nobles, the clergy, and the commons. The Estates -General had not been assembled since 1614, and its deputies drew up long lists of
grievances and called for sweeping political and social reforms. I think that we have the right to be in the same consul as the other Estates. But the king wants us to be isolated from the others in the voting. So we have the right as a fin.
The Guillotine. Today’s current news presents a new form of capital punishment introduced in today’s year of 1792 called the “Guillotine”. The Guil-
lotine was invented by Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine. Guillotine says this is a machine that would satisfy many needs and it is efficient,
humane, and democratic. This device is a tall frame with an angled blade held at the top, and then the person being executed
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The Guillotine con... would have their head laid at the bottom directly below the blade, then the blade would be released. Guillotine says, the person being beheaded “wouldn’t even feel the slightest pain”. Since 97% of the population is made up of us, the “third estate” we are factory working, banking, and farming day and night to pay the unfair high taxes. We are the ones already being beheaded the most because of are large popu-
lation. Now during the region of terror, Maximilien Robespierre having dictatorship has demanded the beheading of anyone from any estate with the suspicion of any crimes against liberty. So it isn’t just us who are afraid it’s the Nobles and officers of the church. We as the third estate strongly believe in Enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality, we are willing to try and over throw the second
and first estate to become just as equal as them. Since the higher classes have much more power than us they will always out vote us and send us to the Guillotine, this showing why most of our population was killed by the machine the most. Many of the noblemen are making grand speeches stating their love for liberty and equality. Peasant’s strike out against members of the upper class attacking and destroying the upper classes manors.
The Guillotine in use.
The National Assembly. National Assembly and this means it is in the house of the Legislative or the lower house of a Legislative. This was back in the 1700’s and it went through a major crisis and it fell over its own structure and it member that have been elected to represent the estates of the realm.
First, the Assembly convenes the newly created immediately attached itself to the colonist, this sources of the credit needed to fund national debt and to the common people. They consolidated the public debt and declared all existing taxes to have been illegally imposed, but
voted in these same taxes only as long as the Assembly continued to sit. This restored the confidence of the capitals and gave them a strong interests in keeping the Assembly in session. Second, The National Assembly was back a long time ago. They convince the people to arrest
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The National Assembly.
The National Assembly con... the king and they took taxes. This is only in some countries. The best known is the legislative and the National Assembly and they replaced by permanent. They liked the French parliament and It Is different from the legislative house. The king agreed but none of them would listen. The next few days the king looked over giving in to some
points while holding firm onto othchamber locked and guarded by ers. No longer interested. The Nasolders. tional Assembly closed and remained at Marly for several days. On the National Assembly and this morning of June 20 means it is in the house of the the debates were shocked to discover Legislative or the lower house of the doors to their
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If you look around to what is going on in the world around us you could tell that we as a nation are starting to suffer due to the war here in France. As you know the Prussian forces are really starting to advance on Paris. The commander has threatened to destroy us if we harm anyone in the royal family. I guess that didn’t scare us that bad because 20,000 men and women invaded Tuileries as we all know is where the royal family is staying. The mob massacred the royal guards and imprisoned King Louis, Marie Antoinette, and their children. The foreign army was not the only enemy of us here in France. Rumors are starting to spread those supporters of the king that are held in Paris prisons planned to break out and seize control of the city. We the citizens are very angry and fearful so we responded by taking the law into our own hands. For many days in September, we raided the prisons and murdered over 1,000 prisoners. Many nobles, priests, and royalist sympathizers were victims to our angry mobs in these September Massacres. Maximilien Robespierre is slowly gaining power. Him and his people are building a Republic of Virtue. They are doing this by taking out every trace of France’s past. Some people changed the calendar and divided it up into 12 months and 30 days and took out the Sundays. Saying that this is too religious. This Reign of Terror must end.
The Reign of Terror.