On 5 May 1789, amidst general festivities, the Estates - General convened in an elaborate but temporary Île des États set up in one of the courtyards of the official Hôtel des Menus Plaisirs in the town of Versailles near the royal château. With the étiquette of 1614 strictly enforced, the clergy and nobility ranged in tiered seating in their full regalia, while the physical locations of the deputies from the Third Estate were at the far end, as dictated by the protocol. When Louis XVI and Charles Louis François de Paule de Barentin, the Keeper of the Seals of France, addressed the deputies on 6 May, the Third Estate discovered that the royal decree granting double representation also upheld the traditional voting "by orders '', i.e. that the collective vote of each estate would be weighed equally.
where did the estates general meeting take place
in one of the courtyards of the official Hôtel des Menus Plaisirs in the town of Versailles near the royal château