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Good morning everyone and welcome to Revolution. In today's program we will be talking about how has the revolution begun, problems in the state general which are getting tired and tired, the third state matters and their own state general, the National Assembly, the tennis court not for playing tennis anymore. 00:00:08

And we have surprise! At the end of the program, we will have an interview for our online englovers with a special guest. 00:00:32

Wait till the end to discover who is he. 00:00:41

Lately, the tensions between the third state and the privileged state have increased considerably. 00:00:45

In the state general, our correspondent will tell us more about this issue. 00:00:51

Tell us, it is? 00:00:55

Thanks, Adriana. Right now, I'm in front of the States General's door, which the king has disclosed. 00:00:57

As you can see, there's a lot of people complaining. I hope you can hear me properly. 00:01:03

Okay, I'm going to call the Portuguese group of people. 00:01:08

Excuse me, hello, excuse me, excuse me. 00:01:15

Hello, we are from the Revolution Loose Program. Can I ask you some questions? 00:01:18

Yes. 00:01:23

Hello, what's your name? 00:01:23

My name is Napoleon. 00:01:25

Napoleon, what do you think about this whole issue? 00:01:25

Well, a year ago I was a trader among the traders and when I discovered Rousseau and his illustrated ideas, 00:01:28

I found out I have been blindfolded all this time. 00:01:36

I discovered how are we trading in society and economy and I understood everything, 00:01:39

as I and other people from the world just discovered the injustice of the whole world we are living in now. 00:01:45

Thank you. 00:01:51

Hopefully, all this will be solved soon. We now move to the National Assembly, from where our correspondent, Laura, will be informing us about what is happening there today. Laura, tell us. 00:01:52

So yeah, exactly Adrián, we were almost next to the National Assembly and a few minutes before connecting with you we tried to get a little bit closer. 00:02:07

But this had not done so much great to the participants of the different social status. 00:02:17

We are now going to try for a second time to get a little bit closer to the National Assembly. Let's get a little bit closer now. 00:02:23

yes so as you can see there is a lot of people here and as you can see we can we 00:02:31

have here a man so let's see what he has to tell us. I'm here to fight for my 00:02:36

rights as a person as all the people that are in here and we are all against 00:02:42

Luis XVI's wishes and laws. Okay so do you think the king is going to 00:02:46

agree with you? Of course he's not going to agree with us but we the people are 00:02:53

all here together to bring an end to Louis XVI's rape. 00:02:57

So as you have listened, this is an act in rebellion towards the king and his wishes are lost. 00:03:03

We will inform you of what happens here during the next hours. 00:03:08

Thank you for the information. We will be very attentive. 00:03:13

The king has finally accepted the third state's demands. 00:03:26

Right now, a Constitution Assembly is taking place in order to write the Constitution. 00:03:30

In Paris, the vassal is being attacked due to the fact that political prisoners are still there. 00:03:34

Peasants are also attacking other nobles' homes and refusing to pay feudal duties. 00:03:40

This revolt is known as the Grand Pur. 00:03:45

Did the Constitution Assembly do something in response to this? 00:03:53

by the peasants to declare you. They establish equality in the payment of taxes and other 00:03:56

reforms so that the peasants are satisfied and they stop the Grand Pur. 00:04:06

A sole correspondent in the National Assembly has told us. The third estate has been locked. 00:04:10

Good afternoon, Clara. Tell us more about it. 00:04:15

That's right, Adrian. We stand here at a historical moment. Right now, it is Twitter 00:04:18

empty and the third estate has moved next door to what is supposed to be a tennis court 00:04:24

have sworn the tennis court oath. This oath consists on a series of agreements that says 00:04:29

that they won't stop meeting until they have a new constitution. This tennis court has been declared 00:04:35

by the third state as the new national assembly where the people of France is truly represented. 00:04:40

It seems that the third state is now well aware of their importance and have realized that they 00:04:46

really can challenge who is the 16th and now finally let's meet our mysterious special guest 00:04:51

montesquieu we're very happy to have you here today many have heard about you and we would 00:05:02

like to dig deeper into your personality tell us a little bit about yourself good morning everyone 00:05:11

well thank you for inviting me. Well you could say that during my life I had strokes of very good 00:05:17

luck but also strokes of very bad luck. For example I had the fortune to come from a very noble family 00:05:23

but my mother died when I was only seven years old. Then I had the good fortune to attend a 00:05:30

junior school, a very important school, but my father died when I was studying which was a 00:05:35

a hard blow for me. Thankfully, my uncle took care of me. He worked in the parliament and 00:05:41

he was the one who ordered the seat so that I became interested in enlightened politics. 00:05:47

God bless the uncle. He told me that the day he died he would like me to substitute him 00:05:53

in his job at the parliament and so we did. Now I'm working at the Portuguese parliament 00:05:58

but in my free time I like reading and learning about philosophy. Fascinating! Now that you 00:06:04

Here we have a copy of your book, The Spirit of Loss, full of enlightened ideas. 00:06:10

Could you tell us a little bit about it? 00:06:18

Oh, The Spirit of Loss! Gladly I will sum it up for you. 00:06:21

Well, in this book I talk about the separation of powers. 00:06:24

I strongly believe that there should be three powers, executive, judicial and legislative. 00:06:28

And no power should be stronger than another, but be equally important. 00:06:33

I see. Could you read us a little fragment of it? 00:06:38

Of course. Let's see. 00:06:43

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or in the same body of magistrates, 00:06:48

there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may end, 00:06:55

lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical law. 00:06:59

Your ideas are simply admirable. Even though you come from a noble family, you stand up for equality. I'm sure you will be remembered a long time in the future. 00:07:07

Oh, I didn't think so. 00:07:20

Thanks, Montesquieu. We hope to see you around here soon. 00:07:22

So do I. Thank you. Bye. 00:07:29

And now it's time to take a look at the water. 00:07:32