s of Nguyen Thai Hoc and to perceive how he felt about the French. His ideas are very similar to the ideas of Phan Thanh Gian, who also believed Vietnam should be free from the French rule.
             When comparing the document borne out of the French Revolution, "National Assembly, Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Of The Citize," and "Letter to the French Chamber of Deputies," it's amazing to see how the French National Assembly made a declaration of the rights of man, but not even a hundred years later, France was trying to control and suppress the citizens of Vietnam. When analyzing the history of France during this time, one sees that the country was run using a type of monarchy called the Estates-General which was made up of three classes consisting of the nobles, clergy, and the third estate, also known as the commoners. The top two upper class estates could out vote the third estate two to one. The commoners realized this and broke away from the Estates-General, asking the other two estates to join them as one body. The groups declined, so in June 1789, the third estate declared a revolution by declaring itself a National Assembly. The National Assembly drew up the first part of the new government, a bill of rights known as The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. This document reflected the general middle-class character of the revolution and stressed property rights and the general rights of any citizen.
             When comparing and contrasting the two documents, I found how many of the articles in the French Declaration had ideas and views that were very similar to Nguyen Thai Hoc. Article two states, "The goal of every political association is the conservation of the natural and indefeasible rights of man; these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression." The key word in the article is "oppression." The Vietnamese faced extreme oppression by the French and di...