After looking at all the situations from different angles, three ways could have avoided The French Revolution. First, if King Louis XVI would not have called the meeting of the Estates-General since this meeting "provided the Third Estate, which included urban laborers, peasants, artisans, businesspeople, lawyers, bankers, and financiers, an unprecedented opportunity to influence national politics" (Pg. 508). Unfortunately for him, King Louis XVI did call the meeting of the Estates-General. At that point, the second way King Louis could have avoided The French Revolution, at the very least, was by listening to the third estate "A more perceptive monarch than Louis XVI would have realized that decades of pent-up frustration over the high cost of food, inequitable tax and service burdens, urban underemployment, and chronic gov-ernment inefficiencies would result in a contentious meeting." (pg.508).