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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.
First of all, referring back to the political causes of the French Revolution, King Louis XVI severely taxed the Third Estate, the poorest of the three French social classes, and assigned the First and Second Estates hardly any, if there was any, taxes.