• In a Revolution there is always a tipping point. A short time period were every thing is in dismay. Imagine your living room of your house in the middle of an earthquake frozen.  The couch flipped on its side hovering in mid air, the lost coins spilling out like an waterfall of hidden treasures. A serenity of meyham the calm before the storm. As time speeds back up things hit the ground every thing crashing down as another shock wave hits. It all happened  so fast that if you blinked you would have miss it.

Mr. Crain Brinton was a American historian of France, as well as an historian of ideas. He is most known for his book “The Anatomy of Revolution”. His book examines a theory stating steps that a revolution takes, based upon similarities between influential revolutions in human history. Since I am studying the most influential revolution, the French Revolution I thought it would be creative to include this topic to my inquiry question. In class we were required to create an inquiry Based question on a revolution. My first thoughts on the topic were how a revolution reached its tipping point, and I soon found out that in most revolutions the third party or median group in this case tends to step in to power at that exact time. In Mr. Crane Brinton’s theory between steps 2-3 the median takes power, so I needed to test his theory on the French Revolution and figure out who takes power and why?

When I finished my research I was surprised by the evidence. When Napoleon Bonaparte took control 1799 he changed the way France was led, but before him the third estate actually was the first to have democratic ideas. Since the First and Second Estates would not listen, The Third Estate decided to break away and start their own assembly where every member would get a vote. On 10 June 1789, they started the National Assembly. The king was very mad and wanted to shut them down. When the people heard about this they were also angry but this time it was at the king. There was riots in the streets and the people stormed the Bastille, one of the first signs of change. There was nothing the king could do but let them have there way, and that led to the first change in power. By getting the people to revolt helped the third estate or at the time the National Assembly to gain power. So thier motive was to gain power.