The meeting of the Estates-General was radicalized from the beginning because of the positions taken by the members of the Third Estate and also because of the published popular views of _________,a member of the First Estate.

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Abbé Emmanuel Sieyès, a member of the First Estate, published a popular pamphlet titled "What is the Third Estate?" in which he argued that the Third Estate (representing the common people) was the most important estate and that it should have equal representation with the other two estates. This radical idea influenced the members of the Third Estate and helped to set the tone for the radicalism of the Estates-General. While Comte de Mirabeau, Marquis de Lafayette, Baron de Montesquieu, and Viscount Louis de Capet were all notable figures during the French Revolution, they did not have the same level of influence in the radicalization of the Estates-General as Sieyès.

The Meeting of the Estates-General Was Radicalized from the Beginning