sailles. They had declared themselves the National Assembly, the only legitimate legislative body in France, on June 17, 1789. Abb Emmanuel Sieys declared, "The third estate was everything, had been treated as nothing, and only wanted to be something." Abb was a clergyman that was the head of the National Assembly. This statement had summed up the National Assembly's feelings. As you can clearly see, the lack of a stable government, which was proved by the greediness of the Parliaments and the aristocrats, and the presence of a weak monarchy in Louis' XVI indecisive and half-hearted attempt at running the country, had caused the downfall of the French monarchy and an overhaul of the country itself....
