Introduction Before the French revolution, the country experienced a lot of economic pressures that eventually led to the revolution. We suffered from the adverse effects of the famine and most people suffered from malnutrition. This increased the death rates due to the starvation and also the occurrence of many diseases. During this time, the country was headed by King Louis XV who was involved in fighting many wars. This led the country to the verge of bankruptcy (Hufton, p22). King Louis XV supported the colonists during the American Revolution and this made the country to spend a lot of finances on the war. The national dept amounted to almost 2 billion Livres. Main body The King tried to solve the financial crises in the country by reforming the tax system but this turned out to be very unsuccessful. He then called for a meeting of three states representing all the classes in France. This included the Nobility, the Clergy, and the Commoners. Each state had one vote and in experience the nobility and the clergy joined together to ensure defeat of any reforms proposals from the commoners. As the commoners we became very determined to ensure that this challenge was not going to pass in the next general assembly. We pushed for the votes of each representative to be counted separately and there rose disagreements on the voting method. This resulted in the first oppressive regime when the third class which comprised of the majority and the only class paying tax declared itself sovereign.We therefore broke away from the Estates General and formed the National Assembly on June 17, 1789.The revolutionary assembly attracted a lot of attention from the other assemblies who decided to join the third class to oppose the existing governing constitution. Upon defeat, King Louis XV ordered the nobles to join the National Assembly that would remain in session till September 1791. This led to the end of the Estates General (Lewis). Civil disobedience became the order of the day and nothing would stop the people from overthrowing the monarchy. The continued disobedience later gave way to the revolutionary regime and several changes came to effect. During the revolution women were very important contributors to the popular movement. The peasant women and the working class women remained politically active during the times of crises. We were responsible of putting bread to the table but during the famine periods, we traditionally marched to the civil center to beseech the local government to solve the misery. During the revolution, the marching demonstrations changed course and instead of marching to the civic center to petition the local magistrates, we marched first to the royal palace and sent our petitions directly to the King and then later marched to the national legislature (Hufton, p28). In mid July Louis tried to repress the National assembly by allowing his troops to shoot people in the streets. This led to crowds storming the Paris streets in search of arms to defend the National Assembly. We stormed the Bastille, a fortress that we believed contained arms and also the political prisoners. King Louis became very unsuccessful in over throwing the assembly. The religious leaders, municipalities, provinces and also towns supported the National Assembly and by the end of July,