Some like Emmanuel Sieyès, a bourgeois writer fascinated by the ideas of the Enlightenment, believed that the whole of French society rested on the shoulders of the third estate. In contrast, Robespierre, the monarch of the time, believed that the third estate had no power to do anything important for society. The third estate had to pay taxes such as the Gabella and the Taille while the first and second estates did not have to pay any taxes to the king. Additionally, third states had less representation on the ballot. The first and second estates could prevail over the third estate every time and this was a huge inequality. The condition of the third estate was horrible, but a good part of this third estate was made up of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie possessed a certain wealth and social class, so it influenced the rest of the third estate regarding their rights, even inspiring some lower clergymen and provincial nobles and thus leading a group of rebellious people to fight the monarchy. This struggle for political representation and political rights was only one cause of the French Revolution. Another cause lies in the French monarchs: Louis XlV, Louis XV and Louis XVl. When Louis XlV reigned, the monarchy had unlimited power and was known as a