How did the political responses made by Louis XVI contribute to the French Revolution?

Question

To place the question in a more specific context:

Explain how political responses made by Louis XVI from May 1789 until August 1789 contributed to the development of the French Revolution.

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Answer 1

He locked the Third Estate out of their meeting room.  That shut down all hope they had of achieving reforms through the current system.

He permitted the first two estates to maintain their tax-free privileges, and only addressed their cahiers, not those of the third estate.

This led to the Tennis Court Oath.  By that point, the nobles and clergy who could count realized that they were outnumbered and they would lose, so they began fleeing or a handful joined the Third Estate.

He failed to maintain calm in the streets of Paris, leading to the rumors that led the people to storm the Bastille and then, in the fall, the March on Versailles.

He lived in a world of denial, and he never fully grasped that this was more than a mild crisis.