This clip contains reenactments of the events leading up to the French Revolution towards the end of the 1700s. Begins with MS of a large house. WS of a mansion. CU of a man in a carriage. Dissolve to a dirt road, a horse drawn carriage heads toward the camera, a man in a brown coat outside his house greets the man exiting the carriage with a handshake. The man from the carriage hands the brown coat man a letter, he reads it and nods his head before they shake hands and the man reenters the carriage. Dissolve to MCU inside the carriage, one reads from a booklet. CU of the front of the booklet, the man’s fingers trace the name M. Necker. CU of the man looking at the booklet again. MS of a carriage that stops in front of a tavern, 2 men exit. The men meet others at the tavern and sit around a table shaking hands. MCU of 2 men talking, a chess set sits in front of them, they both look at a pieces of paper.