How did weak leadership contribute to the revolutionary mood in France?

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1. Estates General:

a)marked the drawing up of the Cahiers de doleances (January 1789) which raised the expectations of social and political reform

b) prompted the pamphlet war, where pamphlets such as 'What is the Third Estate?' by Abbe Sieyes, was able to articulate the desires of the third estate as well as offer a political platform

c) it ushered in the developments of revolutionary groups to debate on the topics of "voting by head or order", such as the Society of Thirty

d) The estates-general (May 1789) gave the Third Estate an opportunity to challenge royal authority.

e) This was witnessed in the adoption of the name "National Assembly" (17 June 1789) , this challenged the arrangements governing the composition of the EG (ie. voting by order), it also showed that the Third Estate were claiming to be the "nation"

f) the National assembly also provided an alternate focus of power

g) the EG marked the recognition that for fundamental financial reform, the representatives of the nation needed to be convened

the TENNIS COURT OATH

a) it was the first formal act of defiance against royal authority

b) it was seminal in arguing for an end to absolutism

c) marked the introduction of a constitutional monarchy