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When the National Assembly broke off from the Estates-General, what was the assembly’s intent?

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to achieve genuine government reform.

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Estate General was a law-making body in France which was comprised of the Three estates representing clergy, nobility and common people respectively. When in 1798 King Louis Sixteenth called the assembly of estate general to look into the matter of financial concern. The Third Estate left the assembly to form the National Assembly. Third Estate was comprised of 98 percent of the French population was allowed a single vote among the Three Estates. Moreover, the financial burden on the third estate led them to broke away from estate general and to propose genuine reforms.

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