ever strengthen his ideals for equality in a society, but still wasn't enough.
             Finally, the day of reckoning came. The national treasury had been exhausted by the wars of King Louis XIV, and by that of King Louis XVI. The two hundred fifty million dollars it cost France (Compton's Interactive Enc.) to help the Americans fight for their independence was the last straw. Jacques Turgot and Jacques Nector, ministers of finance, had tried to ward off bankruptcy by cutting court costs. The overspending court, led by the extravagant Queen Marie Antoinette, would not listen to the word "economy" (The Old Regime and the Revolution pg.63). This led to the dismissal of Turgot and Nector. Finally the foreign banks refused to lend France any more money.
             On June 17, 1789, the third estate broke off and became the National Assembly. They took the "The Tennis Court Oath" on June 20, which "Decrees that all members of this Assembly shall immediately take a solemn oath not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of France has been established."(The French Revolution pg.105) This clearly was a sign that a revolution was about to take place.
             On July 13, 1789, the people of Paris stormed the prison of St. Lazare, where they got some arms. On the next day the Nationa
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