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    The Estates General of 1789 (French: États Généraux de 1789) was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate)...
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  • Provinces) emerged. Historically Estates General (France) (before 1789) Estates-General of 1789 (France) States-General of the Batavian Republic (Dutch republic...
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    and only once afterward, in 1789, but were not definitively dissolved until after the French Revolution. The Estates General were distinct from the parlements...
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    commoners (Third Estate). It was the last of the Estates General of the Kingdom of France. Summoned by King Louis XVI, the Estates General of 1789 ended when...
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    Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November...
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    constituante), although the shorter form was favored. The Estates-General had been called on 5 May 1789 to manage France's financial crisis, but promptly fell...
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    The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the Middle Ages to early...
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    the Estates General of 1789 to manage the revolutionary situation, to give each of the Estates – the First Estate (the clergy), the Second Estate (the...
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    Club Breton (category Groups of the French Revolution)
    was a group of Bretons representatives attending the Estates General of 1789 in France. They usually met in the café Amaury at the corner of the Saint-Cloud...
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    Pierre Louis Prieur (category Regicides of Louis XVI)
    the Estates-General of 1789. During the French Revolution he served as a deputy to the National Convention and held membership in the Committee of Public...
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    convoked the Estates-General on 8 August 1788, setting the date of their opening on 1 May 1789. With the convocation of the Estates-General, as in many...
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    of the principal leaders of the Estates-General upon its opening in May. In the pamphlet, Sieyès argues that the third estate – the common people of France...
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    representative of the Second Estate during the French Revolution. He was a politically liberal deputy to the Estates-General of 1789 and worked for the cause of constitutional...
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    Russia. France, several times from 1789 through the 19th century. The transformation of the Estates General of 1789 into the National Assembly initiated...
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    deputy of the nobility to the Estates-General of 1789, where he was one of the first nobles to go over to the Third Estate, and voted in favor of the abolition...
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  • Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the Ancien Régime to the president's right and supporters of the revolution...
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  • This period usually ranges from the opening of the Estates General on May 5, 1789, to the Coup d'état of Bonaparte on Brumaire 18, Year VIII (November...
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    Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (category Members of the Chamber of Peers of the Hundred Days)
    What Is the Third Estate? (1789) became the political manifesto of the Revolution, which facilitated transforming the Estates-General into the National...
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    Estates General of 1789, (Etats Généraux) made up of representatives of the three estates, which had not been convened since 1614, met on 5 May 1789....
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    Antoine-Éléonor-Léon Leclerc de Juigné (category Archbishops of Paris)
    politician of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While Archbishop of Paris, he was elected deputy of the clergy to the Estates General of 1789. He was...
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  • Parlement of Paris refused to perform for Louis XVI of France in 1787–1788. When the Estates-General of 1789 formed the National Assembly of 1789, they did...
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    an Estates General, to convene in 1789. Lafayette was elected as a representative of the nobility (the Second Estate) from Riom. The Estates General, traditionally...
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    Julián Íñiguez de Medrano (category 16th-century people from the Kingdom of Navarre)
    Assemblies of the Nobility for the election of Deputies to the Estates General of 1789. Summoned by King Louis XVI, the Estates General of 1789 ended when...
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    Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin-Gouvernet (category Secretaries of State for War (France))
    nobleman, general and politician. After a military career that spanned over forty years, he was elected deputy to the Estates-General of 1789 for the nobility...
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    while born of the Estates General of 1789, it had abolished the tricameral structure of that body. With the onset of war and the threat of the revolution's...
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  • Maximilien-Auguste Bleickard d'Helmstatt (category Barons of the Holy Roman Empire)
    France. He was a representative of the Second Estate in the Estates General of 1789. Helmstatt was born in Nancy, the son of Maximilien Bleickard and Eléonore...
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  • This is a partial list of people associated with the French Revolution, including supporters and opponents. Note that not all people listed here were French...
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    Henri Evrard, marquis de Dreux-Brézé (category People of the French Revolution)
    master of the ceremonies to Louis XVI in 1781, and was a descendant of Michel de Dreux-Brézé. During the opening stages of the Estates-General of 1789 it...
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  • Marquis of Amboise (30 May 1726 – 26 July 1794) was a French nobleman and military officer who was a deputy of the Second Estate at the Estates General of 1789...
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