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500 members represented the third estate at the Estate General Assembly on 5th May 1789:

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The above statement is false.
Louis XVI summoned an Estates General assembly to approve new tax plans on May 5, 1789. The delegates were accommodated in Versailles in a magnificent hall. The six hundred members of the third estate were forced to stand at the back, while the first and second estates sent 300 representatives each. However, they were seated in rows with their backs to one another on both sides. The third estate's most affluent and intelligent members served as its representatives. The gathering was closed to peasants, artisans, and women. But the 40,000 letters the representatives had brought with them contained a list of their complaints and requests.
Hence the correct statement would be that 600 represented the third estate at the Estate General Assembly.

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