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Why did King Louis XVI lock the third estate from the estates general?

April 26, 2017Arts Estate estates History Humanities King lock louis xvi

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Why did King Louis XVI lock the third estate from the estates general?

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Hi, During the Estates General meeting of May 1789, the representatives of the Third Estate (the poorest French citizen) asked for a right of vote by head and not by Estate. Louis XVI was afraid of loosing the support of the two first estates (the Clergy and the Nobility) and refused the Third Estate request. He locked them out of the room and then the Third Estate representatives gathered in the Tennis court and declared themselves a National Assembly on July 9th, 1789. Cheers.