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What demand of the third estate did Louis XVI reject?

Louis XVI wanted to increase the taxes to meet the expenses of the state. So to decide about the new taxes, the king called the meeting of the assembly of the estate general in a resplendent hall in Versailles. Each estate had the one vote, and the same practice was to be continued on 5 May 1789. But the third estate demanded that each member should have one vote. This demand was clearly rejected by the Louis XVI and all the members of the third estate left the assembly hall in protest.


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