1789 was a year of anguish, depression and revolution. The people of France were plagued with economic and political burdens. Workers were spending 75% of their wages on bread, and yet the price of food continued to rise. People were dying on the streets by starvation every day, and the populace could do nothing about it. The third estate was tormented by ridiculous prices and taxes, including the Corvée and the Tithe, taxes for the church and roads. The only people who were well off were the nobles, who refused to pay taxes even as their corrupt country was slowly crumbling beneath their feet. France was not a country any more; it was a fiasco of violence and starvation. In May 1789, King Louis XVI summoned the Estates-General, a fruitless scheme that was only proposed so Louis could find ways to relieve his economic burdens, but the people of France was convinced that the Estates-General could be their savior, their rope out of this hopeless country. They wrote down their complaints on their Cahier De Doléances, and hoped for the best. But these “saviors” were simply hollow shells that carried broken promises. Unfortunately, the populace’s worst nightmare came true, and Louis paid no attention to their woes, resulting in the people of France being let down once again. Disappointed, the bubble of anger that was suppressed for years finally burst. It was the last straw on the camel’s back and enough was enough. The people of France decided set up a National assembly, vowing to change the Ancien Régime, or die trying. This was the French revolution. In 1789, the Third estate were frequently plagued by all sorts of taxes, such as the Salt tax, the Corvée, The Taille, Tax of the mill, and different ludicrous taxes that slowly tore the third estate apart. Even though the people in the third estate were seen as the poorest and most worthless of France, being seen as “Dregs of the people”, they were still the fundamental building blocks of France. Without them, France would not have roads, food to eat, or clothes to wear. The peasants were never recognized for their efforts, and starved due to the high prices that rose up to 44% and the endless tax that took up 3 quarters of their wages, which only rose 22%. In fact, this has caused so much of a problem that it triggered a Women’s march for bread in Versailles. This march was the one of the most earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march began among the women in the market place of Paris who, on the morning of 5th October 1789 were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. They marched towards Louis’s castle in Versailles, shouting: “we want bread” as they stormed the streets. The women were desperate for food, and demanded authority and political power. Although the women successfully marched Louis and his queen Marie-Antoinette back to Paris, their pleas were only acknowledged for a short period of time. Taxes continued to plague the peasants, and they even had to pay for things that they didn’t use, including the Corvée, the tax for maintaining roads, roads that only the nobles and clergy used. The Tithe taxes also took up one tenth of a peasant’s monthly wage, giving money to a church that provided