The questions that follow each document in Part A your responses must be 4-6 sentence in length.

1.Document 1: This excerpt is adapted from Travels in France by Arthur Young, who traveled through France from 1787 to 1789. Describe three observations this traveler made about the life of the peasant in France between 1787 and 1789.

2.Document 2: This diagram illustrates the three estates in 1789 and the land each held during the Old Regime. What conclusions can you draw about the relationship between the percentage of the population in each estate and the percentage of land owned by that estate? What unfair conditions existed in pre-revolutionary France?

3.Document 3: These excerpts from cahiers (lists of grievances about the king, taxing, and voting in the Estates General) brought to the Estates General..What three changes did the third estate demand be made in the French government?

4.Document 4: In The French Revolution, historian Albert Mathiez claims that leadership fell to the middle class with their knowledge of the ideas of the Enlightenment. What was the result of the middle class’s knowledge of the ideas of the Enlightenment?

5.Document 5: Lord Acton suggested another point of view. What did Lord Acton believe caused the French Revolution?

6.Document 6: Comte D’Antraigues as quoted in an excerpt form Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution..What does Comte D’Antraigues see as the rightful role of the Third Estate in France?

7.Document 7: The Political and Social System in France What doe Comte D’Antraigues see as the rightful role of the Third Estate in France? What is the cartoonist saying about the relationship among the three estates in France?

8.Document 8: Excerpt from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789).According to this document, what are the natural rights of man?